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Barry Commoner
American Scientist
Born: May 28, 1917
Died: Sep 30, 2012
Action After Environmental Quality Technology War
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
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. Barry Commoner
Good You Change Problem Agriculture Energy Way About Only Rational Goods Global Global Warming Deal Answer Going Human Human Activity Form Which Energy Production Warming Ask Production Transportation Manufacturing Good Deal Activity
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Barry Commoner
Free Lunch Free Lunch Thing
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
Environmental People Fault Agriculture Energy Sick Our Crisis Systems Arises Make Industry Die Essential Production Transportation Fundamental
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. Barry Commoner
Environmental Made Every Corporations Independent Responsible Case Only Hazards Known Opposed Scientists Were Often Who
The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles. Barry Commoner
Vehicles Major Source Replaced Electric
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational. Barry Commoner
See No Reason Shirts Irrational Reason
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
Natural Band Society Weapons Threat Small Remain Physicists Cataclysmic Environment Conceived Were Human Natural Environment Created Whole Human Society
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. Barry Commoner
Army Had Highly Scientists Command Skilled
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. Barry Commoner
Environmental Day People Action Resolve Earth Earth Day Evidence Threat Understood American Wanted American People
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. Barry Commoner
Guarded Corporate Systems Point Powerful Environmentalism Exclusive New Most Most Powerful Govern Domain Intensely Confront Production Illuminates Right Need
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. Barry Commoner
Economic Development Seen Transformation Way Economic Prevention Development New Surge Pollution Creates Production Wholesale Technologies
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. Barry Commoner
Food World Wealth Space Doctors Earth Machines Would Above Through Pole Most Opposite Encompass North North Pole Poor View Teachers Productive Engineers
Nothing ever goes away. Barry Commoner
Nothing Goes Away Ever
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. Barry Commoner
Together Problems Believe Solution Solve Environmentalism Done Anything Illuminates Things Need
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. Barry Commoner
Invention Abhorrent Atomic Fact Real Spreading Still Them Bombs Consequence

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