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recklesswhisper: Everything is connected to everything else & there is NO free lunch! barry commoner
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death_thegarden: “In the eager search for the benefits of modern science and technology we have become enticed into a nearly fatal illusion: that through our machines we have at last escaped from dependence on the natural environment.” - Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle, 1971
stvnyng: “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
Barry Commoner, 1971 -- A Closing Circle
AnthonyFreda10: In Making Peace With the Planet Dr Barry Commoner refers to the petrochemical industry as ‘unique’ and adds the comment that, “The petrochemical industry is inherently inimical to environmental quality.” Dr Commoner was critical of this industry because, as he explains, “Not only…
dunleamark: When I was a community organizer for ACORN in Des Moines IA in mid-1970s, trains derailed there all the time at crossings in low-income communities. Barry Commoner in his Citizens Party presidential campaign in 1980 called to nationalize railroad tracks like we do with highways.
AnthonyFreda10: Chemicals
The immense scale of the operations of the chemical industry and their attendant hazards were recognised by Dr Barry Commoner in the 1992 edition of Making Peace With The Planet, in which he wrote that, “In manufacturing its annual 500 to 600 billion pounds of…
Issuema1387: What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.,Barry Commoner,Time, Problems, Rest ,
Zourken11340821: What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.,Barry Commoner,Time, Problems, Rest ,
GregEqEd: Study=
Long-range Air Transport of Dioxin from North American Sources to Ecologically Vulnerable Receptors in Nunavut, Arctic Canada
Final Report to the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
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beyandmi: Barry dating Princess Linda, as Iris is a commoner and they are not allowed to marry.
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ferlelo: “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it”
- Barry Commoner
WhiskyEric: “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.”
—Barry Commoner
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shaktidurga_me: The proper use of science is not to conquer nature, but to live in it.
— Barry Commoner
nohate251: Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
- Barry Commoner
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reusethebag: “Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."- Barry Commoner (12)
reusethebag: “Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline which prevented it from entering the environment."- Barry Commoner (12)
reusethebag: “Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented."- Barry Commoner (12)
MaxMcAdams_: 2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
MaxMcAdams_: 11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
ecokonnexion: The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
~ Barry Commoner
GDixon1977: The Good Ancestor. Barry Commoner. Ecologist.
Cecalli_Helper: “A group of scientists, led by physician Louise Reed and St. Louis-area professor Barry Commoner, launched the study in Dec. 1958 through the Greater St. Louis Citizen’s Committee for Nuclear Information .. carries new life in the form of a Harvard study”
gibranvita: "The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around." - Barry Commoner
Howard_D: What is interesting is that in his era, Dr Erlich was more criticized by the Left. Like by Barry Commoner.
our_yesterdays: As per Barry Commoner (and common sense) there is no "away", as in, his second law "Everything Must go Somewhere"
Anyone want to take a punt on the year of this quote?
MisterNormal675: "It goes back to the ecologist Barry Commoner’s first rule of ecology — everything is connected to everything else — but with a crucial amendment: some kinds of connections matter a lot more than others."
The New York Times
NerdyCalixto: This was true even in the 1970s.
I think Barry Commoner said giving the people cheap electricity would be like giving a gun to a lunatic
lafabregat: Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man.
–La 1a llei ecològica de Barry Commoner, segons Wordsworth.
ferchinchin: ❝The OBJECTIVE of SCIENCE should not be to CONQUER NATURE, but to be able to LIVE with IT❞.
⭐ Barry Commoner
Franco4511Pro: The Earth Was At Its Warmest Before Humans Arrived!
Green Marxism (aka, climate change activism) is one of the biggest scams in history: it began in 1970 with two Jews (Barry Commoner and Ira Einhorn) and grew quickly from there.
fotibenlisoy: "We are in an environmental crisis because the means by which we use the ecosphere to produce wealth are destructive of the ecosphere itself. The present system of production is self-destructive; the present course of human civilization is suicidal" - Barry Commoner
david_hemond: Hmm. You could have done this in 1968 when Barry Commoner was pleading for action.
SlowwCo: "The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else."
— Barry Commoner
ThatMcRider: What Happens When a Cascade of Crises Collide?
"It goes back to the ecologist Barry Commoner’s first rule of ecology — everything is connected to everything else — but with a crucial amendment: some kinds of connections matter a lot more than others."
ArnCerv: Countess Jeanne Du Barry was also a commoner, she had received a good education at a convent and became the mistress of the aristocrat Jean DuBarry who made her marry his brother Guillaume in order to introduce her to Versailles
JessieGothland: By Barry Commoner
JeffersonCraigg: I'm reminded of the analogy I read 40 years ago, Barry Commoner maybe, that at the start of the final doubling period fully half of the pond is still clear of lily pads.
JessieGothland: By Barry Commoner
hasudi: "The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it."
~Barry Commoner~
TrunkMonkey888: Back in the 1970s, “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
JoannJojoapple: That’s what Barry Commoner said back in 1979. Put photovoltaic cells on every public building and produce electricity. So sad we didn’t listen back then to the scientists.
JessieGothland: By Barry Commoner
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JessieGothland: By Barry Commoner
JessieGothland: By Barry Commoner
Aurelio1917: Thank you Andy..KD was no company man, born in "abject poverty," going to school & working like so many today. I think now it's the American nightmare long in the making, like Barry Lyndon reveals, a candlelit rule that no commoner can leave his rags behind, war a ritual of death
myduabm: S/Hulhudhoo: “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.”
—Barry Commoner
david_hemond: In 1971, Barry Commoner, ecologist, founder of the environmental movement, in The Closing Circle, described how our economy could be restructured, technology used to address the ecological dangers we face - how damaging costs like carbon emissions are not but could be priced in.
AMikofsky: Nobody responded to my clue about Native political woman: Could have been a First Lady.
Answer: LaDonna Harris, matrilineal Comanche, whose husband was Fred Harris; he ran in Presidential primaries.
She also ran for VP on Citizens Party ticket in 1980 alongside Barry Commoner.
JHARLEYWILLIAMS: King Barry will not speak on this issue. He is the king and doesn’t lower himself to commoner situations.
hiddlestigress: Nothing ever goes away.
Barry Commoner
kmohror: “Every thing is connected to everything else,” observed biologist Barry Commoner. In this instance, all human activity, from using a dish-washer to cooking foods to burning the Amazon rain-forest to mining for metals, “kicks up” airborne pollutants that all living things breathe,
George52361482: If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel you are looking the wrong way.
-- Barry Commoner
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WolfeNotes: And 50 Year Anniversaries:
Small is Beautiful
WaterWired: “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.” - Barry Commoner
reusethebag: “Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."- Barry Commoner (11)
reusethebag: “Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline which prevented it from entering the environment."- Barry Commoner (11)
reusethebag: “Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented."- Barry Commoner (11)
barbkiser: A sampling:
The Limits to Growth.
Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle.
EF Schumaker, Small Is Beautiful.
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction/Field Notes from a Catastrophe.
Michael Mann, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.
Oreskes/Conway, Merchants of Doubt.
domycustomessay: assignment 2521
Commoner, Barry. The closing circle: nature, man, and technology. Dover
marvinmitchz: Random quotes
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
KateUaUs: “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.” ~ Barry Commoner
DragonSlayerI: 5 of 5 stars to The Closing Circle by Barry Commoner
atliberalandold: my earth science teacher warned me in 1972- we all read Barry Commoner's book. I actually expected all this would happen sooner than later. And, of course, it's really too late to do what needs to be done. The world is on fire. Maybe it will unite us. I doubt it.
DrIndranilGhosh: "The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it." — Barry Commoner
