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
Barry Commoner quotes about
war years environmental
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
technology age may
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
art law medicine
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
thinking environment situation
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
pay environment natural
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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.
army scientist command
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
tunnels light way
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
technology clean known
All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
air cities achievement
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
environmental half world
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.
running risk environmental
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
environmental signals crisis
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
lunch environment ecology
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.