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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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