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

~Barry Commoner

Topics: Disease Environmental Incurable Only Pollution

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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

Topics: About Activity Agriculture Answer Ask Change Deal Energy Form Global Global Warming Going Good Good Deal Goods Human Human Activity Manufacturing Only Problem Production Rational Transportation Warming Way Which You

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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

~Barry Commoner

Topics: End End Of The Tunnel Light Looking See Tunnel Way Wrong Wrong Way You

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There is no such thing as a free lunch.

~Barry Commoner

Topics: Free Free Lunch Lunch Thing

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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

Topics: Associated Change Confront Corporate Development Economic Economic Development Effort Engine Enough Environmental Growth Improve May Meaningful Most Much Power Powerful Quality

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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.

~Barry Commoner

Topics: Abolish Advantage After Child Child Labor Despite Economic Employed Interest Labor National Policy Removing Social

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

~Barry Commoner

Topics: Ecology Else Everything Everything Else First Law Related

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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

~Barry Commoner

Topics: Age Faith Innocent May Over Science Science And Technology Technology

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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

Topics: Adopting Antagonism Between Control Created Economic Economic Growth Environmental Growth Nation Program Quality Strategy

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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

~Barry Commoner

Topics: Action Crisis Environmental Global Only Problem Resolve Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 28th, 1917

Died: September 30th, 2012

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