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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the ...

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

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively...

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

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were of...

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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in jour...

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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they fa...

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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or so...

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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways tha...

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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagoni...

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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, a...

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

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient ...

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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat...

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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution...

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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so muc...

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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealt...

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Barry Commoner

Biologist

Born: 1917-05-28

Died: 2012-09-30

Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American biologist, college professor, and eco-socialist. In 1980 he ran for President of the United States on the Citizens Party ticket.More