The issue of economic growth and the environment essentially concerns the kinds of pressures that economic growth, at the national and international level, places on the environment over time.

“We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.” — Christopher Dodd

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” — Robert Swan

“Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They’re opposite sides of the same coin if you’re looking at longer-term prosperity.” — Henry Paulson

“The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of ...