Quotes About Pollution

I believe everyone deserves access to clean air and water, and that climate change has exacerbated this challenge.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.

The concentration of plastic is rapidly increasing in the gyres. Even if you were to close off the tap, and no more plastic entered the ocean, that plastic would stay there, probably for hundreds of years.

China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.

Since the 1970s, California has failed to carry out its most basic tasks under the Clean Air Act.

Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.

Agency (EPA) estimates that coal-fired power plants account "for over 40% of all domestic human-caused mercury emissions." Furthermore, the EPA says, "about one quarter of US emissions from coal-burning power plants are deposited within the contiguous US and the remainder enters the global cycle."6 In addition, the ash that comes out of coal-fired power plants is usually contaminated with heavy metals.

Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

confronted with a choice between the pollution of Maurras and the pollution of tourism, the intellectuals chose to remake the emptiness rather than abide with the many.

If bright water you stain with mud, you nevermore will find it fit to drink.

Nite-Owl: Look, I just meant we took enough unnecessary risks retrieving your outfit this morning... Rorschach: Unnecessary? Cowering down here in sludge and pollution, conjuring names on screens, learning nothing: that is unnecessary. Give me smallest finger on man's hand. I'll produce information. Computer unnecessary. This face, all that's necessary... all I need.

In nature, nothing is contaminated. In culture, the polluted are cast out.

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Equally important is the effect of Last Days thinking on questions of world environmental damage. If the Last Days are coming, it is a profane distraction to bother with problems of pollution or exhaustion of natural resources, which in any case have been supplied in God's providence for humans to use. Hence the Christian Right's long-standing lack of interest in a matter which may bring the Last Days on human civilization, but not in the manner it anticipates.

Did they contribute to the destruction? Did they cause the pollution? J: They were misguided. It's sort of like what's happening on Earth. People are misguided by the behaviors of other people's greed, and it wasn't recognized in time.

Everything that the coils of Pentex touched, everything it produced, was corrupt or toxic.

At the moment, the discussion concerned global warming. "The reason for global warming," one of them said as Dortmunder leaned his front against the bar somewhere down to the right of them, "is air conditioners.

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

As the firm grew, so did the city. It got bigger, taller, and richer; but it also grew dirtier, darker, and more dangerous. A miasma of cinder-flecked smoke blackened its streets and at times reduced visibility to the distance of a single block, especially in winter, when coal furnaces were in full roar.

We found a way to compare the pollution in earwax from different cities.