Barry Commoner
  • Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.

  • Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.

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

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