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

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

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

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

"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases."

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"Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on."
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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."

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

"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."

"In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards."

"The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision."
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