Everything is connected to everything else.
Everything must go somewhere.
Nature knows best.
No such thing as a free lunch.
If only we arranged our affairs in full accord with ecology as brilliantly described by people like #BarryCommoner. I use his words so often in my teaching as they say so much, so succinctly.
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Barry Commoner
#BarryCommoner was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn #OnThisDay in 1917, becoming a plant physiologist & the Citizens Party's presidential nominee in 1980; I was one of the 233,052 people who voted for him~!
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Stumbled on to this quote in the @latimes archives: #BarryCommoner on the #plasticbag and on "public, democratic control of production decisions" –– c. 1986 #envhist #planetorplastic #plasticpollution
Source: articles.latimes.com/1986-06-13/news/mn-10728...
💥 @AnnieMLeonard on #plasticpollution for The @Guardian — opens w/ a #BarryCommoner line — “There is no ‘away’” — then brings it home: “Corporations are safe when they can tell us to simply recycle away their pollution.” #plasticpollution h/t...
@EganHistory Oh, yes. Paging #BarryCommoner.
