Barry Commoner quotes - page 2

Nothing ever goes away. (Barry Commoner)
Clearly, we have compiled a record of serious failures in recent technological encounters with the environment. In each case, the new technology was brought into use before the ultimate hazards were known. We have been quick to reap the benefits and slow to comprehend the costs. View quote
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The peak of the [Presidential] campaign happened in Albuquerque, where a local reporter said to me, "Dr. Commoner, are you a serious candidate or are you just running on the issues?" View quote
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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. View quote
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over. View quote
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. View quote
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational. View quote
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager. View quote
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. View quote
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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. View quote
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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)
All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them. View quote
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment. View quote
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