Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
BARRY COMMONERNothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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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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Everything is connected to everything else.
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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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 environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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No action is without its side effects.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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