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
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. – Barry Commoner
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art. – 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. – Barry Commoner
A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. – Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for