Barry Commoner Quotes - Page 2

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• It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

  Barry Commoner

  Zero, Impossible, Approach

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Age, May

  barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”

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• Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.

  Barry Commoner

  Differences, People, Feel Good

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• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  Barry Commoner

  Issues, Environmental, Links

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• World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Technology, Impact

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• The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.---->I dont 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

  Believe, Law, Together

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

  Barry Commoner

  Degradation, Substance, Recycling

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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.

  Barry Commoner

  Earth Day, Survival, Environmental

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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 that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

  Barry Commoner

  Suicidal, Environmental, Warning

  Barry Commoner (2014). “The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology”, p.108, Knopf

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• Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

  Barry Commoner

  Planets, Cooperatives

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• The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Vision, Facts

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

  Barry Commoner

  Country, Ghetto, Simple

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• No action is without its side effects.

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  Sides, Action, Side Effects

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• I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

  Barry Commoner

  Reason, Shirts, Irrational

  "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

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• Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.

  Barry Commoner

  Ecosystems, Environmental, Degradation

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• 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

  Technology, Law, Inheritance

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• 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

  Powerful, Environmental, Needs

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

  Barry Commoner

  Running, Risk, Environmental

  Barry Commoner (2014). “The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology”, p.122, Knopf

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• 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

  Teacher, Doctors, Views

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• 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

  Children, Economic, Child Labor

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

  Barry Commoner

  Practice, Problem, Solve

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• 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

  Simple, Environmental Quality, Entering

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

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  War, Years, Environmental

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

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  Environmental, Signals, Crisis

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• The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

  Barry Commoner

  Army, Scientist, Command

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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