“What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.” NeedsPowerfulEnvironmentEnvironmentalProductionsCorporateMost PowerfulDomainExclusiveEnvironmentalismGuarded Author:Barry Commoner
“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.” HumansLawSocialInterestTechnologyJudgmentStructureProductionsMythInheritancePrevailingThermodynamicsAmenableAtomic Structure Author:Barry Commoner
“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.” PeopleDiesEnergyIndustryEssentialsSickCrisisFundamentalsFaultsEnvironmentalProductionsAriseAgricultureTransportationEnvironmental Crisis Author:Barry Commoner
“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.” IfsWayHumansProblemFormAsksEnergyAnswersDealsActivityProductionsRationalGlobal WarmingGoodsAgricultureManufacturingTransportationHuman ActivityEnergy Production Author:Barry Commoner
“Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.” WayTechnologyEconomicDevelopmentTransformationProductionsPollutionPreventionEconomic DevelopmentWholesale Author:Barry Commoner
“What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.” WorldWarTechnologyNeededMajorsTransformationProfoundProductionsPostsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ISweeping Author:Barry Commoner
