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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."

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Donna Grant

"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."

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Donna Grant

"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."

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Donna Grant

"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."

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Donna Grant

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

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Donna Grant

"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."

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Donna Grant

"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."

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Donna Grant

"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."

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Donna Grant

"Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations."

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Donna Grant

"I could do a lot of stuff's but the problem is not here it's the place where I am, the crowd which has surrounded and many other factors."

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Donna Grant

"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."

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Barry Commoner
"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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Barry Commoner
"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."

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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."

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Barry Commoner
"No action is without its side effects."

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Barry Commoner
"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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Barry Commoner
"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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Barry Commoner
"The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective."

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

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"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."

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