The best Quotes by Barry Commoner

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

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

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.

Change the System! Not the Climate!

We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.

There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet.

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

The natural world can continue to surprise us as long as we give it space to thrive.

To love the world is to be afflicted.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

Protecting the climate and nature is one of the biggest challenges of our time that we can only tackle together.

In my view, we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can't wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones. And it's time to act!

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

I don't accept the Republicans' argument that boldly addressing climate change and having the world's strongest economy are incompatible. I believe that the exact opposite of that is true. Tackling our climate challenges will provide us with the opportunity to grow our economy, protect public health, and propel the United States to become the world leader in green innovation in the 21st century.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.

For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

This is money well spent. If we ignore climate change, it's gonna cost us a lot more.

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

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

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature, we call it progress.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Something will have gone out of us as a people, if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Marshall: "If economic sanctions and trade-restrictions aren't enforced, the destruction of the rainforest will continue and over a million species will be wiped out!"
Ted: "So you don't want coffee?"

Earth's tombstone may be like:
"Everyone wanted the best - for themselves."

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.

I don't think you understand how Australians work. Once we get a hold of a good quality meme, we drive it into the ground until we die. We're all still dropping the old "I pulled a Bradbury" and that happened over 20 years ago.

I really appreciate the positivity and I'm glad I was able to bring some joy into your lives. That's what I hoped. I didn't realise that would also open the door to so much hate which has, frankly, been pretty devastating.

Don't be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that's gonna take you.

Since the day I announced my candidacy, I set out to find a partner who can help unite our nation and move us forward—a fighter for the middle class and patriot who believes in the promise of America. I am here today because I found such a leader: Governor Tim Walz.

Thank you, Kamala Harris, for the trust that you've placed in me. And maybe more so, thank you for bringing back the joy. I couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket - and to help make you the next President of the United States.

While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is "mostly cows and rocks". Walz is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work.

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

I am for electric cars. I have to be, because Elon endorsed me very strongly. So, I have no choice.

On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country. I am honored to have the President's endors*ment and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.