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Barry Commoner Quotes

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

"At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

"Barry Commoner, scientist and influential environmentalist, dies at 95" by Matt Schudel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

"'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Tom Hanks ('The Post')" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 9, 2018.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

"Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.