Disease Quote by Barry Commoner Download Open image “Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.” — Barry Commoner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disease Environmental Incurable disease Pollution
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts. — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future. — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population… — Heinz Wolff 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
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
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
