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.
Some Barry Commoner's quotes. Goto "Barry Commoner's quotation" section for more.The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
Tags: Electric, Replaced, SourceThe real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
Tags: Fact, Invention, RealWhen you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
Tags: Situation, Understand, WorseBy adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
Tags: Between, Control, NationEnvironmental 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, WhileI 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, TogetherIn 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, ScientistsMy 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, SocialSeen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
Tags: Economic, Production, SeenThe 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, WarThe 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, TimeThe 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, ProductiveThe 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, SocietyWhat 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, TimeWhat 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, WarI see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
Tags: Irrational, Reason, ShirtsIf you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
Tags: End, Light, WrongEnvironmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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