Pollution Quotes

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

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

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

If fashion pollutes it should no longer be called fashion, it should be called pollution.

The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.

The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!

There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.

Pollution is an unused resource.

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

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

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

Trees cause pollution.

Nature's solution to pollution is dilution.

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air.

Information Overload = "information pollution"

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

What we've often seen is that when we Americans say, look, we've got to reduce pollution, business - some businesses complain about it, but almost every time, it's turned out to be easier and cheaper and accomplished faster, and they've gained confidence, and then we go farther.

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

noise is a pollution.

The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.

Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

The birds are already evolving, changing the way that they sing as a result of noise pollution. And we have yet to do that. We're still not communicating. We're not changing our words. We are not testing, not providing this new lexicon for noise-polluted areas.

If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion.