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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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By adopting the control strategy, the nations environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. – Barry Commoner

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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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environmental
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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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If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization. – Ron Wyden

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environmental

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know its a challenge to the moral imagination. – Al Gore

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environmental

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book… and I began putting more work into environmental history. – Jared Diamond

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

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It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on. – Mary Richards

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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. – Dag Hammarskjold

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