Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. – Barry Commoner
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. – 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
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. – Barry Commoner
It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource. – John Anderson