In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
BARRY COMMONERAfter 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.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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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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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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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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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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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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No action is without its side effects.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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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 proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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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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