Barry Commoner Quotes - Page 3

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• The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

  Barry Commoner

  Army, Scientist, Command

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Development, Prevention

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.

  Barry Commoner

  Meaningful, Believe, Lakes

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• The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

  Barry Commoner

  Modern, Apprentice

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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

  War, Technology, Profound

  Interview with Alan Hall, June 23, 1997.

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

  Barry Commoner

  Air, Epa, Method

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental Quality, Growth, Strategy

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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

  Barry Commoner

  Teenager, Different, Way

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• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

  Barry Commoner

  People, Firefighter, Earth Day

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

  Barry Commoner

  Simple, Triumph, Growing

  1966 Science and Survival.

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