Barry Commoner
Scientist
1917-05-28 – 2012-09-30
American biologist and environmental activist who helped popularize modern ecology and public understanding of environmental issues.
Quotes by Barry Commoner
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Nothing ever goes away.
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