I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
BARRY COMMONER
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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