Action Quote by Barry Commoner

During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now…

— Max Born

Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way…

— Tadatoshi Akiba

“Nuclear weapons give an attacking nation a devastating advantage over any feasible defense. New sciences will soon empower small groups, even individuals, with similar…

— Martin Rees

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause…

— Ronald Reagan

Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or…

— Leo Kadanoff

“Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.”

— David Foster Wallace

“The chief causes of the environmental destruction that faces us today are not biological, or the product of individual human choice. They are social…

— John Bellamy Foster

“Increasing public awareness of risks of nuclear conflict is the core element of any successful nuclear-weapons-free world strategy.”

— Amit Ray

“Our celebrated democratic institutions tackle the issue of hazardous science with a deafening silence. There is no such issue!”

— Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch…

— John Charles Polanyi

“one can ask why they didn’t explore more vigorously the possible environmental consequences of this unprecedented ecological experiment—an all-out thermonuclear war—for which they were…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth…

— Richard Lindzen