Barry Commoner Quotes
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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
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
— Barry Commoner
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
— Barry Commoner
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
— Barry Commoner
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
— Barry Commoner
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
— Barry Commoner
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
— Barry Commoner
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly,
we must pay
for every intrusion
on the natural environment. — Barry Commoner
No action is without its side effects.
— Barry Commoner
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
— Barry Commoner
The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
— Barry Commoner
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
— Barry Commoner
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
— Barry Commoner
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
— 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
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
— Barry Commoner
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
— Barry Commoner
Nothing ever goes away.
— Barry Commoner
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
— Barry Commoner
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
— Barry Commoner
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
— Barry Commoner
