Sublime

In Making Peace With the Planet Dr Barry Commoner refers to the petrochemical industry as ‘unique’ and adds the comment that, “The petrochemical industry is inherently inimical to environmental quality.” Dr Commoner was critical of this industry because, as he explains, “Not only are its wastes dangerous but its very products degrade the environmen

Where Darwinian processes dominate, the biological landscape would be expected to be littered with broken but helpful genes, damaged yet beneficial systems, and degraded organisms on crutches ages before any fancy machinery was even available.

A landmark suit brought by consumer rights activist Ralph Nader gave corporations that owned drugstores a First Amendment right to inform consumers by advertising their prices. However, it morphed into a corporate free speech movement that produced one court decision after another allowing unlimited corporate money to overwhelm democratic elections

novel properties may arise – novel in the sense that they are not present in the constituent parts.

Dr Barry Commoner PhD expresses this point in his book entitled Making Peace With the Planet, “Organic compounds incapable of enzymatic degradation are not produced in living things.”