83 Quotes by Barry Commoner

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

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

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

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

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

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.