Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art. – Barry Commoner
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. – Barry Commoner
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over. – 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
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. – Michael Gove