Quotes By Barry Commoner

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

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.

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

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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