No action is without its side effects.
BARRY COMMONERIf environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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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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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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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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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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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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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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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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