“The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.”
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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.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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.
