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"What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production."
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"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases."

"The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack."

"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."

"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."

"You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things."

"Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development."

"The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective."

"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."

"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."
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