Youre here: Home » Famous Quotes » Barry Commoner Quotes


FAMOUS QUOTES MENU

» Famous Quotes Home

» Quote Topics

» Author Nationalities

» Author Types

» Popular Searches


 Browse authors:

Barry Commoner Quotes


Page 1 of 2
Barry Commoner
May 28, 1917 -
Nationality: American
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: American Scientist

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

   

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

   

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.

   

Nothing ever goes away.

   

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.

   

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.

   

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

   

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

   

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

   

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

   

Page:   1 | 2

Privacy Policy
Copyright © 1999-2008 eDigg.com. All rights reserved.