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.
BARRY COMMONERThe environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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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 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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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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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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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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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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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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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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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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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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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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