All Barry Commoner Quotes
- The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. Conquer
- Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing… Bountiful
- What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive… Confront
- When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think. Environment
- Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference… Difference
- Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't… Best
- We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. Crisis
- In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. Bitterly
- If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do… Activity
- By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. Adopting
- 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… Abolish
- Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the… Activity
- My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action:… Action
- The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.---->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe… All
- In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. Degradation
- 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
- Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. Creates
- 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… Changes
- The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. Action
- Nothing ever goes away. Advice