Quotes About Pollution

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

Somewhere down the line I'd like to create a foundation that brings awareness to environmental protection, sustainability, the effects of pollution, and all of those things related to protecting nature.

See, New York is over the hill. It's swallowed up in its own garbage. And the people - I can't stand the people.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

I'm concerned that we don't address the water pollution problems in other countries. If we move forward and don't clean up the messes of the past, they'll just get swept under the rug.

I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

In many people's minds, Everest has lost her crown. She has become a mountain synonymous with death, exploitation and pollution.

New data suggests contamination in rivers and streams, as well as on land, is increasingly common, with most of the pollution in the form of microscopic pieces of synthetic fibers, largely from clothing.

Casi siempre el mejor enfoque a los problemas de contaminación es gravar el comportamiento perjudicial y dejar que las fuerzas del mercado determinen la respuesta del coste incrementado.

Adding to the smoke of burning coal, from about the middle of the eighteenth century, the "dark Satanic mills" of William Blake's 1808 poem "Jerusalem" began strewing their blight across England's green and pleasant land.

By 1963, more than 98 percent of US gasoline was leaded. When, a decade later, lead was finally ordered removed from the US gasoline supply, it was removed because it fouled the new catalytic converters mandated to fight smog, a different air pollution problem, not because it had been labeled a dangerous pollutant itself.

As coal replaced wood, its denser and more toxic smoke became a pestilence. Between 1591 and 1667, coal shipments into London increased from 35,000 tons to 264,000 tons; by 1700, that tonnage had almost doubled to 467,000 tons.27 An adequate supply of fossil fuel kept people warm and sustained the growth of English industry, but it also fouled the London air.

streams, and rivers foully polluted them. Gaslight had too many advantages to resist, however. Pollution is seldom the first concern when new technologies are introduced.

10 Coal, with its ubiquitous content of uranium and thorium, releases more radioactivity into the environment when it is burned than any other fuel.

Perhaps the primary example of our lack of attention to the Christ Mystery can be seen in the way we continue to pollute and ravage planet earth, the very thing we all stand on and live from. Science now appears to love and respect physicality more than most religion does!

I noted too that I had on many occasions spoken on the subject of the pollution of the spirit (or so I told them), and how the spirit should not be polluted, and how I personally looked askance at, for instance, a latte.

The River Styx,' Annabeth murmured. 'It's so...' 'Polluted,' Charon said. 'For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across - hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.

Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person!

When the word ends, there'll be no more air. That's why it's important to pollute the air now.

And it was clear the Sun was unwilling to make any promise about Josie, because for all his kindness, he wasn't yet able to see Josie separately from the other humans, some of whom had angered him very much on account of their Pollution and inconsideration, and I suddenly felt foolish to have come to this place to make such a request.

the Sun was unwilling to make any promise about Josie, because for all his kindness, he wasn't yet able to see Josie separately from the other humans, some of whom had angered him very much on account of their Pollution and inconsideration

Birmingham was a dirty industrial city, and from the plane it had a delicate rose-pink aura of pollution, like the chiffon scarf around the neck of an old prostitute.

the air was thick with coal dust. Was it possible that men breathed this all day? That must be why miners coughed and spat constantly.