Barry Commoner

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

— Barry Commoner

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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. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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I don't 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. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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

— Barry Commoner

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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. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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Nature knows best. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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