Quotes by Barry Commoner

About Barry Commoner:

Barry Commoner was an American biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He ran for president of the United States in the 1980 U.S. presidential election on the Citizens Party ticket. He served as editor of Science Illustrated magazine.
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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.

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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.

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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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No action is without its side effects.

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

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

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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

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There is no such thing as a free lunch.

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

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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

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

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameBarry Commoner
  • DescriptionAmerican biologist, college professor and eco-socialist
  • BornMay 28, 1917
  • DiedSeptember 30, 2012
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBiologist; Officer; Author