#barry commoner

[oldshowbiz]

1980 - The infamous “bullshit” ad

[probablyasocialecologist]

The energy crisis and the web of interrelated problems confront us with the need to explore the possibility of creating a production system that is consciously intended to serve social needs and that judges the value of its products by their use, and an economic system that is committed to these purposes. At least in principle, such a system is socialism.”

Barry Commoner, The Poverty of Power

[probablyasocialecologist]

In our progress-minded society, anyone who presumes to explain a serious problem is expected to offer to solve it as well. But none of us – singly or sitting in committee – can possibly blueprint a specific “plan” for resolving the environmental crisis. To pretend otherwise is only to evade the real meaning of the environmental crisis: that the world is being carried to the brink of ecological disaster not by a singular fault, which some clever scheme can correct, but by the phalanx of powerful economic, political, and social forces that constitute the march of history.

Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle

[probablyasocialecologist]

If the environment is polluted and the economy is sick, the virus that causes both will be found in the system of production.

Barry Commoner, Making Peace with the Planet

[whats-in-a-sentence]

It is reminiscent of the crisis of the unclosed circle foreseen by Commoner, and in the Club of Rome's "Limits to Growth",

a soft apocalypse hardly any less scary, and infinitely more widely worried about, than the sudden sharp impact of an asteroid

one in which the Earth runs out of new stuff to use and new places to dispose of that which has already been used.

"The Moon: A History for the Future" - Oliver Morton

[csuitemind]

Barry Commoner : Nothing ever goes away

[supergwendy]

Kevin Costner – I’ve had some movies that…

“I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?” -Kevin Costner

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[kenneturner]

American Snout Butterfly

American Snout Butterfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, maybe not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

— Barry Commoner

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