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.
BARRY COMMONERThe 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.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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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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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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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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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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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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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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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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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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