quotes about Pollution
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
-- Barry CommonerSource : "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.
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The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!
-- Bobby SealeSource : Bobby Seale (1978). “A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale”, Crown
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.
-- Friedensreich Hundertwasser -
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
-- Gale NortonSource : Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.
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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
-- Garrett Hardin -
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There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.
-- Gina McCarthySource : "Pruitt promised polluters EPA will value their profits over American lives" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2018.
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Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.
-- Gloria ReubenSource : "A Night in New York" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2010.
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I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.
-- Helen Caldicott -
If fashion pollutes it should no longer be called fashion, it should be called pollution.
-- Horst Rechelbacher -
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Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.
-- James Hansen -
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.
-- Janet Reno -
The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.
-- Jill Stein -
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism,
-- Julia Gillard -
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All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?
-- Lawrence Summers -
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.
-- Noam Chomsky -
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
-- Rene Dubos -
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Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.
-- Robert Lacey -
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.
-- Russell Kirk -
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.
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noise is a pollution.
-- Sylvia Townsend WarnerSource : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
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There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.
-- Thomas Ehrlich -
With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.
-- Al Meyerhoff -
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.
-- Gordon HemptonSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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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.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
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Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.
-- Sandra SteingraberSource : Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.69, Da Capo Press
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Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.
-- Kevin D. Williamson