“No one can buy his share of "clean air" in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.”

— Daniel Bell, book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 196

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