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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic acti

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. – Barry Commoner

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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. – Barry Commoner

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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. – Barry Commoner

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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. – Barry Commoner

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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems. – Harri Holkeri

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There are two problems for our species survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and were hurtling towards them. Knowingly. – Noam Chomsky

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I dont see this planet being… theyre talking about how theyre turning around the environmental problems here, but I think its already too late. – Ace Frehley

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This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we dont subsidize, we dont want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. – Joe Biden

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