Definition of Pollution

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Definition of Pollution
	Pollution The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity. The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse. Related Definitions: Act, Any, At, Being, Defilement, Emission, Impurity, In, Intercourse, Of, Or, Other, Polluted, Polluting, Semen, Sense, Sexual, Sperm, State, Than, The, Times, Verb

Pollution Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
Jack Herer

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

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

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.
John Ratzenberger

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

Pollution Translations

pollution in French is pollution
pollution in German is Verunreinigung (Halbl.)

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