Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert… — Greg Hunt Copy Share Image
Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
And by the way, the United States is the biggest cause in global warming pollution. And we're doing the least about it.… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste.… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
...children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“So, whether the aliens explore with chemistry or with radio waves, they might come to the same conclusion: a planet where there’s… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure.” — Soumya V Copy Share Image
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
“All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances. — Al Meyerhoff Copy Share Image
Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere of Earth acts as a lens to sunlight and adding atmospheric pollution to it modifies the characteristics of it.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air… — Arvind Kejriwal 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
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
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
It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will… — Fred Krupp Copy Share Image