"Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can……" — Barry Commoner
"Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented."
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50 Quotes by Barry Commoner
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common…
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and…
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to…
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a…
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable…
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the…
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the…
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a…
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which…
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
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I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the…
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