Barry Commoner War Quotations

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

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.

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 - that were outside their limited field of vision.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.