Abhorrent Quote by Barry Commoner

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

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

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

— Barry Commoner

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

— Barry Commoner

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

— Barry Commoner

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

— Barry Commoner

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

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

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

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

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

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