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Economic Quotes by Barry Commoner
- By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
- After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it…
- Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the…
- 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…
- Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
- What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost…
- 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.
- Our economic system treats environmental degradation as an externalitya cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our resources
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