Pollution Quotes

260 quotes by 202 authors

Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population… — Rene Dubos
Pollution should never be the price of prosperity. — Al Gore
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer… — William Irwin Thompson
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs… — Prince Charles
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine,… — J. G. Ballard
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV… — Susan Sontag
Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important… — Andrea Bocelli
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those… — Van Jones
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid… — Carl Sagan
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental… — Eliot Coleman
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands… — Massimo Vignelli
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism, — Julia Gillard
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted...… — Ronald Reagan
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make… — B.F. Skinner
Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered,… — Michael E. Mann
Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five… — Al Gore
Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet… — Al Gore
"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse… — Ann Coulter
In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury… — Bo Lozoff

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