If we were to take a similar look at industry under the influence of the ecoefficiency movement, the results might look like this: Design a system of industry that will: • release fewer pounds of toxic wastes into the air, soil, and water every year • measure prosperity by less activity • meet the stipulations of thousands of complex regulations to keep people and natural systems from being poisoned too quickly • produce fewer materials that are so dangerous that they will require future generations to maintain constant vigilance while living in terror • result in smaller amounts of useless
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