Barry Commoner Quotes

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• No action is without its side effects.
• The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
• The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known…
• The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
• All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
• In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
• Everything is connected to everything else,
• Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult…
• 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…
• 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 been…
• What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost…
• As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of…
• The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make…
• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
• World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
• It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
• Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
• If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
• I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

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