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Barry Commoner

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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Barry Commoner suggests that the real force driving change against big companies is not just protecting the environment itself, but the economic progress that comes from trying to make the environment better. In other words, efforts to improve environmental quality can stimulate growth and development that challenge corporate power more effectively than environmental concerns alone.

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