All Barry Commoner Quotes
- Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. Art
- It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure… Amenable
- The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. Ecology
- The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society… Band
- The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. Among
- The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over. Age
- Nature knows best. Best
- There is no such thing as a free lunch. Economics
- The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles. Electric
- 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 Arithmetic