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  • Barry Commoner: American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician

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  • Samuel Butler A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Barry Commoner 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.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner 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.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner 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.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Samuel Butler Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Barry Commoner Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner 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.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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