Quote by 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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. – Barry Commoner

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environmental
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. – Barry Commoner

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environmental
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that dont go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are. – Barry Commoner

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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. – Gro Harlem Brundtland

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environmental

A fascinating challenge facing todays environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. – Matt Gonzalez

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environmental

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. – Sherwood Boehlert

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environmental

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. – Maurice Strong

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Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today. – Proverb

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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. – Rabindranath Tagore

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When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard. – American Indian Proverb