“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.”
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
