Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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 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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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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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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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.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Recycling 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.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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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 most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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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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.
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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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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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