Top 40 Quotes by Barry Commoner

The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

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 of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

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.