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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
- Barry Commoner
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#Environmental
#Growth
#Quality
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
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#Environmental
#Quality
#Simple
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
- Barry Commoner
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#American
#Day
#Environmental
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.
- Barry Commoner
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#Go
#Problems
#Rest
#Time
No action is without its side effects.
- Barry Commoner
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#Effects
#Side
#Without
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
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#Environmental
#Science
#Social
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
#Change
#Environmental
#Growth
#Power
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
#Agriculture
#Die
#Energy
#Environmental
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
- Barry Commoner
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#Faith
#Over
#Science
#Technology
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
- Barry Commoner
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#Crisis
#Environmental
#Will
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
- Barry Commoner
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#Education
#Environmental
#Law
#Life
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
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#Emissions
#Less
#Over
#Time
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
- Barry Commoner
#Environment
#War
#World War II
#World
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
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#Field
#Outside
#Vision
#War
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
- Barry Commoner
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#Command
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#Scientists
#Skilled
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
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#Environment
#Human
#Small
#Society
All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
- Barry Commoner
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#Known
#Question
#Simply
#Them
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
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#Inheritance
#Social
#Technology
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
- Barry Commoner
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#Impact
#Technology
#War
#Whole
#World
The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
- Barry Commoner
#Major
#Replaced
#Source
#Vehicles
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.
- Barry Commoner
#Child Labor
#Labor
#Policy
#Social
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
- Barry Commoner
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#Light
#Looking
#Way
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
- Barry Commoner
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#Else
#Everything
#First
#Law
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
- Barry Commoner
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#Free
#Lunch
#Thing
Nature knows best.
- Barry Commoner
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#Knows
#Nature
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
- Barry Commoner
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#Environmental
#Only
#Pollution
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