Author: Barry Commoner

In every case the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

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.

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.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

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