Pollution Quotes

260 quotes by 194 authors

Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing… — Isaac Asimov
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern… — Carl Sagan
People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it. — Ha-Joon Chang
Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air… — Stephen Fry
There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises. — Terry Pratchett
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens… — Susan Sontag
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half… — Michael Pollan
I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of… — Malcolm Forbes
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will… — Malcolm Forbes
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an… — Jean Baudrillard
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation. — Clay Shirky
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but… — Howard Rheingold
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent… — Stewart Udall
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. — Marion Nestle
There is an incredible renewable energy resource off both coasts of this country - wind and tidal energy that can power our economy, create good… — Chellie Pingree
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. — Jeff Merkley
I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less… — Jack W. Szostak
The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the… — Shashi Tharoor
Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution,… — Eduardo Paes
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What… — Rose George

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