In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
BARRY COMMONERRecycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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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.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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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.
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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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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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