Cost Quote by Ha-Joon Chang

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.

— Richard M. Nixon

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself…

— John Holdren

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something…

— Ronald Coase

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

— Kalle Lasn

I'll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It's completely irrational, and I don't get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought into this…

— Steven Van Zandt

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

— Aaron Feuerstein

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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 have an…

— Fred Krupp

You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public,…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

The businessmen of the world who are not taking environmental matters seriously are just wasting money, aside from damaging the environment it's wasting money…

— Lewis Pugh