Quotes About Pollution

The Clean Power Plan sets the first-ever national carbon pollution standards for the power sector, the single-biggest source of carbon emissions in the United States.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative health impacts from this constant exposure can add up.

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.

New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

Sentía ganas de meterle una bala entre los ojos a cualquier panda que se negara a follar para salvar su especie. Quería abrir las válvulas de descarga rápida de todos los petroleros y cubrir de crudo todas esas magnificas playas que yo jamás conocería. Quería respirar humo.

Man knows next to nothing about the ocean. And because of that, he doesn't respect it, and he is ruining it with overfishing, pollution, global warming, toxic algal blooms.

That's one thing I really hate about smokers: the world is their ashtray.

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

Honk if you hate noise pollution.

The stresses of modern life and exposure to modern pollutants increase the need for certain nutrients that a pure meat and fat diet might not provide, so be prudent. Take an all-purpose supplement, some omega-3s, eat a few leaves, and you're covered.

Nothing ruins an ecosystem more than cementing it over. So what f*#!-ing difference does it make if you toss a butt on the ground?

When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you!

Still, that was the city, a great big filthy breeding-place for vermin – animal and human.

A field of stiff weeds and thistles and tufted nettle-bunches. Thick among the tufts of rank stiff growth lay battered canisters and clots and coils of solid excrement. A faint marshlight struggling upwards from all the ordure through the bristling grey-green weeds. An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung.

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?