Barry Commoner Quotes and its meanings

What does Barry Commoner write about?

Barry Commoner has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about education, environmental, faith, food, science, society, technology & war. People always share Education quotes, Environmental quotes, faith, food, science, society, technology & war from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Barry Commoner?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Barry Commoner.

• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.
• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
• The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
• 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 world's poor.
• 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.
• 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.
• It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
• World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.