Bill Clinton actually said...

Technology has permitted us to say, for the first time since the industrial revolution, it is no longer necessary to grow an economy to burn more greenhouse gases to burn up the atmosphere.

Context

Remarks at Morning Session One of the Conference on Progressive Governance for the 21st Century in Florence

11/20/1999

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