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Quotes About Pollution

The promises of science have not been kept. Promises of efficiency and simplicity have bred nothing but pollution and chaos.
~ Dan Brown
How is it that you—a highly educated woman of science—don't see? Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.
~ Dan Brown
Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation.
~ Dan Brown
at least for now, the "demand" for EVs is largely coming not from consumers, but from governments whose evolving policies are shaped by climate concerns as well as by urban pollution and congestion.
~ Daniel Yergin
Cars generate about 6 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions.
~ Daniel Yergin
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.
~ Vangelis
Himmler announced today that a Polish farm labourer had been hanged for sleeping with a German woman. No race pollution is to be permitted. Another
~ William L. Shirer
A state which in an age of racial pollution devotes itself to cultivation of its best racial elements must some day become master of the earth…. We all sense that in a far future mankind may face problems which can be surmounted only by a supreme Master Race supported by the means and resources of the entire globe.
~ William L. Shirer
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
~ Chief Seattle
She was shocked by how dirty Florence was.
~ Christobel Kent
A polluted stream, the bright spirit of water dead, is as sad as human death from murder. The soul of the murderer has been murdered first, we know; let the rivers sing...
~ Henry Williamson
To live as My princess," He told me gently, "I must become the center of your very existence. Your innermost being must become a set-apart place, a sacred sanctuary worthy of My presence. Your heart must be transformed into an intimate retreat, unstained by the pollution of the world, where you can discover more and more of Me and allow Me to shape you into My lily-white likeness.
~ Leslie Ludy
What was atrocious was the fact that, like every other building in the new towns, they were dumped almost at random; the leakage of escaping gas scented the so-called gas-house districts, and not surprisingly these districts frequently became among the most degraded sections of the city. Towering above the town, polluting its air, the gas tanks symbolized the dominance of 'practical' interests over life-needs.
~ Lewis Mumford
It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful.
~ Boyan Slat
We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.
~ David Suzuki
The pollution that flows from the Tijuana River Valley into the Pacific Ocean threatens San Diego's environment.
~ Kevin Faulconer
And by reducing carbon pollution in our atmosphere, we are protecting our air, water, mountains, forests, deserts, valleys, coasts and rivers - the astounding natural ecosystems that support all life and make Oregon the special place we call home.
~ Ted Wheeler
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
~ Ma Jun
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
That is, cleaning up pollution is usually far more expensive than preventing pollution, just as doctors usually find it far more expensive and less effective to try to cure already sick patients than to prevent diseases in the first place by cheap, simple public health measures.
~ Jared Diamond
The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees.
~ Jay Leno
The cultural greenhouse effect: the toxic cloud caused by emissions from millions of museums, galleries, festivals, conferences and symposiums is much more catastrophic than the disappearance of the ozone layer. The asphyxia caused by the activity of thousands of creative brains damages the quality of life more certainly than all the world's industrial pollution. And if no Tokyo Congress has yet managed to control technological pollution, what body could put a brake on cultural nuisance?
~ Jean Baudrillard
Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted that they couldn't even see the stars.
~ Jeannette Walls
We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.
~ Robert Kennedy