Quote by Barry Commoner
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront

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

Other quotes by Barry Commoner

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the worlds poor. – Barry Commoner

Category:
Food
Read Quote

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that dont go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are. – Barry Commoner

Category:
environmental
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
environmental
category

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. – Richard Rogers

Category:
environmental

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. – Roger Tory Peterson

Category:
environmental

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

Category:
environmental

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world. – Joan Jett

Category:
environmental

Random Quotes

Theres a darkness under The Hangover because ultimately theres a missing person and its not really that funny. Theres a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in Old School. – Todd Phillips

Category:
funny

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Category:
Environment

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. – Hubert H. Humphrey

Category:
Politics

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. – Taylor Caldwell

Category:
Society