Quotes of Barry Commoner - somelinesforyou

“ The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. ”

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

“ In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ”

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

“ 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

“ The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. ”

- Barry Commoner

“ In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ”

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

“ In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ”

- Barry Commoner

“ In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ”

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

“ 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. ”

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

“ When the Committee for Nuclear Information was organized in St. Louis in 1958, we brought scientists and civic-minded citizens together. ”

- Barry Commoner

“ No action is without its side effects. ”

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

“ 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

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

- Barry Commoner

“ When the Committee for Nuclear Information was organized in St. Louis in 1958, we brought scientists and civic-minded citizens together. ”

- Barry Commoner

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

- Barry Commoner

“ The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. ”

- Barry Commoner

“ 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
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