Pollution Quotes

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan

Tough, Air, Standards

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Nothing, Value, Ignorant

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
Stephen Hawking

Power, Energy, Become

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Robert Orben

Put, Place, Air

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
Bob Woodward

Best, Business, Rumors

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle

Water, Air, Harming

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore White

Politics, Money, Today

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
Uri Geller

Live, Place, Earth

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Garrett Hardin

Positive, Earth, Private

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
Simon Mainwaring

Together, Control, Working

Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
Al Gore

Today, Tomorrow, Start

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Al Gore

Water, Air, Harming

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
David Suzuki

Change, Health, Care

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.
James Buchan

Crisis, Political, Said

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
David R. Brower

Cool, Energy, Year

I rant and rave about noise pollution.
Robert Carlyle

Noise, Rant, Rave

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
Michael Pollan

Food, Dead, Takes

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

Health, Human, Fact

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
Jeff Goodell

Health, Water, Public

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.
Jeff Goodell

Food, Here, Means

With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
Jeff Goodell

Revolution, After, Effort

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
Jeff Goodell

Failed, Global, Slow

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.
Louise Slaughter

Time, Bad, Children

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
Evo Morales

Mother, Live, Human

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
Gisele Bundchen

Done, Light, Away

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
Barry Commoner

Seen, Economic, Production

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner

Disease, Incurable, Prevented

I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
Garrett Hedlund

Power, Long, Everything

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
Bjorn Lomborg

Important, Rich, Since

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.
Tom Allen

Power, Problem, National

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