Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think. — 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… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.---->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything.… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.… — 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
