"There is no such thing as a free lunch." — Barry Commoner

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.

No action is without its side effects.

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

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

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.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

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There is no such thing as a free lunch.