Quotes About Pollution

Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.

The features that have made plastic so important in the global market are the same ones that make it such a pervasive pollutant: durability and resistance to degradation.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

We've become a plastic society.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

I watched a documentary called 'Plastic Oceans' on Netflix, and it was an eye-opener for me.

We're starting with the North Pacific gyre simply because it is the largest accumulation of plastic.

Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and they aren't likely to take seriously a candidate who denies the science and who is plainly in the pocket of the polluters.

Ultimately, refiners, like all of us, are going to have to clean up their emissions.

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

The less money you have the more likely you are to live close to polluted roads. Most of us cannot choose to move further away from a main road or add another 40 minutes to our commute so that we can live in a quiet, clean, leafy street.

Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

I guess over the course of time, I started to open up to a lot of the issues surrounding the oceans. From my personal experience, being out in the water and seeing plastics floating around and thinking they are jellyfish and realizing they're plastic bags. I'm always that guy that will take it into the shore.

We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.

I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably survive, but not very well, and that's what we're doing to the ocean. It's the life support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it, we've been polluting it, we've been destroying it for decades, and we're essentially maiming ourselves.