Quote by Barry Commoner
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, du

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

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By adopting the control strategy, the nations environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. – Barry Commoner

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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. – Barry Commoner

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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. – Barry Commoner

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It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it. – David R. Brower

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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? – Gale Norton

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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. – Pat Buckley

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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nations standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. – Jim Jeffords

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