Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can’t have a healthy economy, you can’t have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

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Business is part of the environment, not the other way around. The environment is more important than business. If the environment is damaged, then everything, including the economy and all other parts of life, will be unhealthy.

About Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote is a versatile American actor, director, screenwriter, author, and narrator with an impressive filmography. He has lent his distinctive voice to various projects, including narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and winning an Emmy for his work on Ken Burns’s documentary series ‘The Roosevelts: An Intimate History’.

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