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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner 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.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner No action is without its side effects.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner 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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You have 37.2 trillion cells in your body. There is vastness outside you and vastness inside you. You are connected to this mystery, you are a microcosm of the universe, and every aspect of your life benefits from the universe’s provision.
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Adam HochschildAdam Hochschild Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
Adam HochschildAdam Hochschild I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn’t have, or what I still wanted.
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