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Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
— Barry Commoner men
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
— Barry Commoner war
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
— Barry Commoner law
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
— Barry Commoner age
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
— Barry Commoner art
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
— Barry Commoner reason
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
— Barry Commoner life
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
— Barry Commoner light
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 men
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
— Barry Commoner power
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
— Barry Commoner people
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 associated with the effort to improve it.
— Barry Commoner change
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
— Barry Commoner men
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
— Barry Commoner men
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
— Barry Commoner free
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
— Barry Commoner art
Nature knows best.
— Barry Commoner best
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
— Barry Commoner men
All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
— Barry Commoner lying
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
— Barry Commoner men
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 to solve all of the problems together.
— Barry Commoner men
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.
— Barry Commoner men
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.
— Barry Commoner men
The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
— Barry Commoner society
What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
— Barry Commoner time

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