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SUCCESS, IN THE CORPORATE WORLD AND ON WALL STREET, hides many sins. It’s an unspoken, and even accepted, norm that the price for growth and profitability in manufacturing is environmental destruction. The manufacture of cars, smartphones, and clothes, for example, has dirty secrets that are known but rarely mentioned. That’s just the way it goes. If you want to make an omelet, it is said, you have to break some eggs.
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Heller, C. (2018). Interface Net-Works. In: The Intergalactic Design Guide. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-882-4_8
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