Citas de Barry Commoner

• El uso adecuado de la ciencia no es conquistar la naturaleza, sino vivir en ella.

  Barry Commoner

  Earth Day, Environmental, Use

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  La contaminación ambiental es una enfermedad incurable. Sólo puede prevenirse.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Disease, Pollution

  "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

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• Everything is connected to everything else.

  Barry Commoner

  Conectado

  The Closing Circle ch. 2 (1971)

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

  Barry Commoner

  Nature, Animal, Law

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

  Barry Commoner

  Pay, Environment, Natural

  barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”

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• Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

  Barry Commoner

  Air, Cities, Achievement

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

  Barry Commoner

  Nature, Lunch, Environment

  "Barry Commoner, scientist and influential environmentalist, dies at 95" by Matt Schudel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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• 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.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Environmental, Generations

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• Si puedes ver la luz al final del túnel, estás mirando en la dirección equivocada.

  Barry Commoner

  Tunnels, Light, Way

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• La crisis medioambiental se debe a un fallo fundamental: nuestros sistemas de producción -en la industria, la agricultura, la energía y el transporte-, esenciales como son, hacen que la gente enferme y muera.

  Barry Commoner

  Agriculture, People, Sick

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• 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.

  Barry Commoner

  Agriculture, Energy, Answers

  "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

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• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Action, Problem

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Technology, Men

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• The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Facts, Affluence

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• Si el ecologismo es una moda pasajera, será la última.

  Barry Commoner

  Fads, Lasts, Ifs

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• All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Clean, Known

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• Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.

  Barry Commoner

  Ecosystems, Long, Effort

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• Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

  Barry Commoner

  Advice, Information

  "'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Tom Hanks ('The Post')" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 9, 2018.

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• A pesar de los deslumbrantes éxitos de la tecnología moderna y del poder sin precedentes de los sistemas militares modernos, adolecen de un defecto común y catastrófico. Al tiempo que nos proporcionan un abundante suministro de alimentos, grandes plantas industriales, transporte de alta velocidad y armas militares de una potencia sin precedentes, amenazan nuestra propia supervivencia.

  Barry Commoner

  Military, Technology, Survival

  barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”

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• When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

  Barry Commoner

  Thinking, Understanding, Environmental

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• En todos los casos, los peligros medioambientales sólo fueron dados a conocer por científicos independientes, que a menudo se encontraron con la enconada oposición de las empresas responsables de los peligros.

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  Independent, Environmental, Hazards

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• La preocupación por el medio ambiente está ahora firmemente arraigada en la vida pública: en la educación, la medicina y el derecho; en el periodismo, la literatura y el arte.

  Barry Commoner

  Art, Law, Medicine

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.

  Barry Commoner

  Play, Ddt, Environmental

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• Lo que la nueva tecnología de fertilizantes ha conseguido para el agricultor está claro: se puede producir más en menos superficie que antes. Dado que el coste de los fertilizantes es inferior al de cualquier otro insumo económico en relación con la ganancia resultante en las ventas de cultivos, y dado que el Banco de Tierras paga al agricultor por la superficie no cultivada, la nueva tecnología le resulta muy rentable. El coste -la degradación del medio ambiente- lo asumen sus vecinos de la ciudad, que ven contaminada su agua. La nueva tecnología es un éxito económico, pero sólo porque es un fracaso ecológico.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Land, Water

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• Es sencillamente imposible desde el punto de vista económico exigir controles que se aproximen siquiera a cero emisiones.

  Barry Commoner

  Zero, Impossible, Approach

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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