Barry Commoner Quotes & Sayings
40 most famous Barry Commoner quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.”
“Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.”
“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.”
“The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.”
“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.”
“If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.”
“Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.”
“I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.”
“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.”
“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.”
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