83 Quotes by Barry Commoner

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

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

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

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

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

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

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.