Quotes by Barry Commoner

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

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• 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.

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• The peak of the campaign happened in Albuquerque, where a local reporter said to me, Dr. Commoner, are you a serious candidate or are you just running on the issues?

  Quoted in Thomas Vinciguerra, At 90, an Environmentalist From the 70s Still Has Hope, The New York Times (2007-06-19}

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

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• The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

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• The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• interconnections
• environmentalism
• distribution
• albuquerque
• consequence
• enterprises

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