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Environmental Quotes by 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.
- In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
- By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
- Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the…
- My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action:…
- The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth…
- The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
- Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult…
- The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that…
- 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 been…
- What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost…
- The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make…
- Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
- The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
- Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
- Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
- The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
- Our economic system treats environmental degradation as an externalitya cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our resources
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- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker
- It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams
- The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey