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Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life and human dignity, for the rights of today's generations and those to come, prevails. -- Pope John Paul Ii
We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective ... -- Ronald Reagan
I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. -- Gore Vidal
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window. -- Ryan Tedder
Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life. -- Frances Beinecke
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it. -- Barry Commoner
The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don't pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it's a cheaper way of producing something else. -- Ronald Coase
That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong. -- Louise Slaughter
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The most polluted animal on the planet today is the modern human. -- Steven Magee
Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors. -- Frances Beinecke
Humans are contributing to additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. -- John Barrasso
Cars don't cause pollution, trees do. -- Ronald Reagan
Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet. -- Kevin Mccloud
Growing up in Delhi, one gets addicted to pollution. -- Karan Mahajan
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up. -- Pat Buchanan
Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution. -- Yehuda Berg
Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf. -- Yvon Chouinard
The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution does real, measurable damage, especially to human health. -- Paul Krugman
People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause. -- Richard M. Nixon
I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution. -- Bernie Sanders
The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must. -- Mary Kay Ash
Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now. -- Frances Beinecke
Talking about pollution, nobody's holy.
They who pollute, sinned against nature. -- Toba Beta
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit. -- Alexander Pope
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime! -- Rick Danko
in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful. -- Barbara Lee
I love the smell of emissions -- Sarah Palin
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. -- Evo Morales
Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity. -- Bryant Mcgill
What we are seeing here is environmental injustice -- Mike Farrell
If fashion pollutes it should no longer be called fashion, it should be called pollution. -- Horst Rechelbacher
There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control. -- Ma Jun
One wandering thought pollutes the day; -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it. -- Dalai Lama
Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted? -- Jane Austen
Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity. -- Pope Benedict Xvi
As someone once said about water pollution, we all live downstream. We are all interconnected, and we can no longer afford the luxury of not thinking about the rest of the planet in anything we do. -- Shashi Tharoor
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
It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. -- Dalai Lama Xiv
Every thought, word, or deed, either purifies or pollutes the body. -- Harold Klemp
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute. -- Gloria Steinem
Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted. -- Vladimir Putin
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since. -- Naveen Jain
We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called. -- Richard M. Nixon
There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume. -- Donald Wuerl
Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions. -- Gloria Reuben
The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase. -- Amy Dacyczyn
I am an environmentalist ... I am for clean air. -- Ronald Reagan
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
Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. -- Irv Kupcinet
In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them. -- Imran Khan
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products. -- William Ralph Inge
There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make sure that the costs are borne by the parties responsible. -- Milton Friedman
What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast campaign of organic renewal. The problem is the cost of an effective operation, which is enormous, and thus must be paid by someone via some form of taxes. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us. -- Gerald R. Ford
I rant and rave about noise pollution. -- Robert Carlyle
One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food. -- Charlotte Gerson
We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods. -- Simon Toyne
We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us. -- Mark Kennedy
I'm trying like hell to leave a footprint, carbon or otherwise. -- M.a. Bookout
It is the habit of our species to despoil all we touch. Yet few see it so. -- Geraldine Brooks
Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled. -- Wolfgang Ketterle
Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence. -- Marya Mannes
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. -- Eddie Bernice Johnson
Let us green the earth, restore the earth, heal the earth ... -- Ian Mcharg
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. -- Jeff Merkley
Environment is no one's property to destroy; it's everyone's responsibility to protect. -- Mohith Agadi
The greatest polluting element in the earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat on a global scale than warming, or the increase of chemical elements in the environment. -- Robert O. Becker
I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Brainwash cried Romney, the Governor of Pollution -- Allen Ginsberg
Everything I do is the environment. -- Arthur Boyd
We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it. -- Shane Claiborne
Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president. -- Thomas Carper
If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there! -- Byron Katie
Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious. -- Robert Lacey
In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature. -- Ross Parmenter
You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy. -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public. -- Bernie Sanders
We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters? -- Indira Gandhi
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. -- Ayn Rand
The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights. -- Russell Kirk
We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste. -- Serge Dedina
Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter. -- George W. Bush
There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air. -- Charles Duhigg
As creatures with a body, we should all be especially concerned about the quality of air, water and food we allow into our bodily vehicle. -- Bryant Mcgill
Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility. -- Jaime Lerner
I hate noise pollution. Get that filthy soda can out of my ear! -- Jarod Kintz
I'm an environmentalist; I recycle. -- Kyrsten Sinema
We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about the lead. Lead in the biosphere is not good. Carbon in the atmosphere (over natural levels) is a problem. -- William Mcdonough
What're you going to do," he said, "pollinate it to death? -- Ransom Riggs
The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left. -- Zoe Helene
The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to protect it from damage, and to pass it on to our heirs in good condition. To do less is to dishonor the Giver and the gift. -- Frederick Victor Grey Wymark
I don't like littering and I think it leads to terrorist activities. -- Dane Cook
Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet. What pollution is on the outer level is negativity on the inner. It is everywhere, not just in places where people don't have enough, but even more so where they have more than enough. -- Eckhart Tolle
Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul. -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted. -- James Fallows
