Quotes About Pollution

Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?

As for Dr. Zajac's modest contribution to the ongoing pollution of the Charles River… well, let's be fair… In his hopelessly old-fashioned opinion, a lot worse than dogshit was dumped into the Charles on daily basis.

New-car smell is toxic to humans.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.

The world doesn't need more people to save the world, what it really needs is more people to kick asses of those who pollute.

Toxicity is now a question of degree, of acceptable parts per unit.

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility — which I do.

The new American finds his challenge and his love in traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.

the queasy purple of light pollution was lonelier than night.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.