Quotes About Pollution

Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.

In developed countries, strong rules are in place to restrict sound pollution and curb its deadly effects. As law-abiding citizens with social responsibility, we should all come together against this unhealthy trend.

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.

We recognise the link between environmental failure and social injustice. When the energy sector is privatised and deregulated, it not only tends to pollute more, it also charges the poorest more per unit!

The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A. is required to publish a list of 'stationary sources' of air pollution, of which the most important are power plants.

The sea is the universal sewer.

Nowhere are emissions monitored constantly. So the truth is that the real quantity of dioxin emissions from incineration remains unknown.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

India's waste problem is gigantic, and with its economy growing steadily, it will be compounded manifold.

This sin cleaves to us as a leprosy. This original pollution makes us guilty before the Lord; and even though we would never commit actual sin, it merits hell. The meditation of this would be a means to pull down our pride. -- Nay, even those who have grace have cause to walk humbly be- cause they have more corruption in them than grace: their dark side is broader than their light.

Sin is not only a defection—but a pollution. It is to the soul as rust is to gold, as a stain to beauty. It makes the soul red with guilt, and black with filth. Sin in Scripture is compared to a "menstruous cloth," and to a "plague-sore.

This is trash state U.S.A.

We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

met in a harborside convention center in Vancouver to figure out how to save the world's exploding cities from disaster. The world had little inkling of the great recession slouching on the horizon, yet the prognosis was bleak. The problem? On the one hand, cities were pumping out most of the world's pollution and 80 percent

Collective problems such as pollution and climate change demand collective responses. Civilization is a shared project.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

There aren't many clean places left in this dirty world of ours.

There ought to be a name for the kind of overwhelm that happens when you realise there are too many things to fight. If it's not environment, then it's human rights. If it's not human rights, it's women's rights. Law and order. Gun control. Invasive species. Water pollution. Tax reform. Refugee policy. Education. Health care. The list is endless.

The problem was that our focused, obsessive drive to conquer nature and make ourselves more comfortable had left the natural systems of the planet polluted and on the verge of collapse. We

Most of us don't realize the difference we could make. We love to shrug off our own responsibilities, to point fingers at others. Surely, we say, the pollution, waste, and other ills are not our fault. They are the fault of the industry, business, science. They are the fault of the politicians, This leads to a destructive and potentially deadly apathy.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

Contaminated water is not a problem limited to Flint. Think of New Jersey, where school fountains were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. Or the EPA's 33,000 superfund sites, which are highly-polluted areas that require long-term clean-up operations. The problem is so large that it feels insurmountable.

The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.