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Barry Commoner's Profile

Brief about Barry Commoner: By info that we know Barry Commoner was born at 1917-05-28. And also Barry Commoner is American Scientist.

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

Tags: Electric, Replaced, Source

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Tags: Fact, Invention, Real

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

Tags: Situation, Understand, Worse

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

Tags: Between, Control, Nation

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.

Tags: Quality, Simple, While

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.

Tags: Done, Problems, Together

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.

Tags: Known, Often, Scientists

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.

Tags: Between, Science, Social

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

Tags: Economic, Production, Seen

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

Tags: United, Vision, War

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

Tags: After, Become, Time

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.

Tags: Among, Economic, Productive

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.

Tags: Human, Small, Society

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.

Tags: Problems, Rest, Time

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.

Tags: Changes, Technology, War

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

Tags: Irrational, Reason, Shirts

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

Tags: End, Light, Wrong

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

Tags: Education, Environmental, Life

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

Tags: Disease, Incurable, Pollution

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Tags: Free, Lunch
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