83 Quotes by Barry Commoner

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

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

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

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

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

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

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

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.

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.