Quotes About Environment Pollution

#1. Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

Greg Hunt

#2. It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.

Alexander Berkman

#3. The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Rod Serling

#4. Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.

Bill Lambrecht

#5. I don't want us to be the species that ruins it for the rest. What we do not consume we poison. Sometimes we do both. Perhaps that is how we shall end, by consuming the poisons we have created.

James Rozoff

#6. Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

Irv Kupcinet

#7. While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Barry Goldwater

#8. Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Al Gore

#9. Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.

Sharon Gannon

#10. Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

Gina McCarthy

#11. Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

Al Gore

#12. Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.

Geoffrey West

#13. If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don't act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don't have the right to do that.

Tony Blair

#14. Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

Ma Jun

#15. America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

Stewart Udall

#16. There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Terry Pratchett

#17. I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.

Helen Caldicott

#18. It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle

#19. I have acknowledged the problem and have spent my time in Congress focusing on solutions - including developing clean and efficient energy that grows our economy and creates jobs while also lowering pollution levels and protecting the environment.

Rob Portman

#20. We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.

Steven Magee

#21. People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Ha-Joon Chang

#22. How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Marion Nestle

#23. Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

B.F. Skinner

#24. Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure.

Soumya V.

#25. You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

Ian Rankin

#26. If we take care of our trees,
our trees will take care of us.
If we take care of our animals,
our animals will take care of us.
If we take care of our land,
our land will take care of us.
If we take care of our world,
our world will take care of us.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#28. Environment is no one's property to destroy; it's everyone's responsibility to protect.

Mohith Agadi

#29. Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.

Stephen Harper

#30. The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened.

Christian De Duve

#31. The assumptions that "pollution is the price of progress" or that "we must choose between jobs and the environment" have long limited our creative thinking about innovative solutions that can be good for the environment, the workers, and a healthy economy.

Annie Leonard

#32. Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

Barry Commoner

#33. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

B.F. Skinner