Quotes by Barry Commoner

Barry Commoner

All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.

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Technology

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.

Doctors

Teacher

Views

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

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Environmental

Pollution

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.

Entering

Environmental Quality

Simple

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Environment

Lunch

Nature

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Fads

Ifs

Lasts

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.

Agriculture

Answers

Energy

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

Light

Tunnels

Way

In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

Different

Teenager

Way

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.

Environmental

Issues

Links

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Quotes by Barry Commoner

Barry Commoner

All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.

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.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

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.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

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.

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

In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

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.

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