“The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.” IfsMayHas BeensNextTermWealthTechnologyGenerationsModernEvidenceCrisisEnvironmentalDebtProductivityFraudExploitationRapidsNext GenerationShort TermWipeInsidiousSomberModern TechnologyEnvironmental Crisis Author:Barry Commoner
“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.” MayAgeTechnologyInnocentScience And Technology Book:science and survival Source: science and survival
“Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.” HumansMayFoundHuman BeingsMaterialsCapableEnvironmentalDuesSubstancePollutionDegradationEcosystemsIntrusionEnvironmental Degradation Author:Barry Commoner
“The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.” MayEnoughGrowthPowerfulEffortQualityEconomicDevelopmentEnvironmentalMeaningfulCorporateEnginesEconomic DevelopmentMost MeaningfulDevelopment And GrowthEnvironmental Quality Author:Barry Commoner
