Barry Commoner

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. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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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

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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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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. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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

— Barry Commoner

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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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