Quotes About Pollution

When the ocean get poisoned even a sip will be deadly

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Any occupation had to be better than wallowing through a sky filled with damp carbon deposits — the excrement of seven million automobiles.

polluted mod. environmentally stabilized While residents complained of polluted beaches and virtually nonexistent clean-up, Exxon executives referred to the beaches in Alaska affected by the Valdez oil spill as "environmentally stabilized.

What do you call dumping 22,000 pounds of organic chemical waste into the Mississippi River every day? You call it "organic loading.

The problem is that those who produce the emissions do not pay for that privilege, and those who are harmed are not compensated.

You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

L.A. was the John Wayne Gacy of cities, smothering its children with a toxic beach towel of poisoned air, mindless growth, and bad values.

Tellingly, Ralf has revealed himself as an Internet sceptic. One suspects he thinks the World Wide Web has made things too easy for people, certainly too easy to 'pollute' the world with the meaningless and the inconsequential. 'I am not a fan of the Internet, I think it's overrated. Intelligent information is still intelligent information and an overflow of nonsense does not really help. In Germany it's called Datenmüll: data rubbish.

BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.

For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

There is not a simple gene pool entirely free of toxic waste.

What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.