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.
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.
