Our economic system treats environmental degradation as an externalitya cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our resources — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
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. — 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 Image
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 Image
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
