Three Relevant Quotes from Break Through

(i) "Nothing is more central...than our contention that for any politics to succeed, it must swim with, not against, the current of changing social values" (p.6)"

(ii) "Environmentalists have long misunderstood, downplayed, or ignored the conditions for their own existence. They have tended to view economic growth as the cause but not the solution to ecological crisis. Environmentalists like to emphasize ways in which the economy depends on ecology, but they often miss the ways in which thinking ecologically depends on prospering economically" (p.6).

(iii) "The result is that Americans have seen their wealth and spending power rise, but they have also become increasingly insecure in terms of their employment, retirement, health care, and community" (p.14).


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