Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Way back in 2000, the EPA was poised, and, in fact, had drafted a rule, to specially regulate pollution - water pollution… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The Clean Air Act gives states the right to impose limits on automobile emissions if the federal government isn't doing its job… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
We have the industrial agriculturalists who try and make an argument that big is beautiful. But if you do the math, and… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
“Whoever owned this place, these cities, whoever owned those glittering glassy office buildings in midtown filled with the purr of money turning… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has got old-time loyalty, that's why people like him. He keeps his promises. He said he was going to take… — Don King Copy Share Image
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens of Washington State to finally have the Hanford nuclear site cleaned up.… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution… — Jewel Copy Share Image
What we've often seen is that when we Americans say, look, we've got to reduce pollution, business - some businesses complain about… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When I'm grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long… — Darby Stanchfield Copy Share Image
If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
The cumulative amount of man-made global pollution that's in the atmosphere now traps as much extra heat energy every day as would… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act,… — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In developed countries, strong rules are in place to restrict sound pollution and curb its deadly effects. As law-abiding citizens with social… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We are fortunate in New York's Third Congressional District to be located near world-class airports. However, science and first-hand experience from my… — George Santos Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
With pollution from traffic a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, we should be building a transport and planning system that makes… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
