The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. …

- Barry Commoner

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, t…

- Barry Commoner

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones -…

- Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else.

- Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

- Barry Commoner

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

- Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

- Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

- 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 productio…

- Barry Commoner