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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- Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.
- Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.
- The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
- Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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