Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. - Barry Commoner 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. - Barry Commoner 7 Share Now -
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. - Barry Commoner 8 Share Now -
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. - Barry Commoner 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
