Barry Commoner
Barry Commoner
Barry Commonerwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 May 1917
CountryUnited States of America
agriculture sick people
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.
technology clean known
All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
tunnels light way
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
pay environment natural
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
art law medicine
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
technology age may
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
war years environmental
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
war technology profound
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.
meaningful powerful environmental-quality
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.
substance degradation recycling
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
believe law together
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.---->I dont 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.
ecosystems environmental degradation
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
issues environmental nuclear
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
ecosystems long effort
Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.