Barry Commoner Quotes

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

They go together, a strong environment and a strong economy. In Florida the environment is the economy.

Green growth is one vehicle through which technology, globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth, jobs and competitiveness.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.

We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.

This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.

There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can 'afford to save the environment.' This 'Kuznets Curve' thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth.

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.