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