Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
BARRY COMMONEREnvironmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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 first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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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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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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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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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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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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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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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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