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. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
