Humans Quote by Barry Commoner

“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 or biological inheritance.”

Barry Commoner

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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

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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…

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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…

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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and…

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The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning…

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