Barry Commoner Environmental Quality Quotations

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

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.

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.