Pollution Quotes - Page 14

• 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

  Climate, Environment, Economy

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• The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. ...The real enemy then is humanity itself.

  Aurelio Peccei

  Real, Men, Kyoto Protocol

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• By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Spiritual, Mean, Tree

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• One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Kings, Air, Law

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• Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

  Julianne Moore

  Children, Heart, Doctors

  "Clean Air Anthem" by Ronnie Citron-Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2012.

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• It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Selfish

  "How we wrecked the ocean". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2010.

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• As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Distance, Inspiration

  "Greening the ghetto". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Years, Europe, Organization

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• We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

  Athenagoras of Athens

  People, Guilt, Looks

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• God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.

  Leslie Ludy

  Jesus, Kings, World

  Leslie Ludy (2008). “Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman”, p.28, Harvest House Publishers

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• The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population,
  pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our planet
  grows smaller every day and the need for thoughtful, lower-impact housing becomes more urgent. This delightful book is full of inspiring ideas that will help you simplify your housing choices, make more environmentally responsible product and material choices and bring down the square footage of your next home. Or maybe you'll decide to take your current home and turn it into several. You won't be disappointed.

  Wanda Urbanska

  Book, Home, Thoughtful

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• Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Too Much, Way

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• The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

  Plutarch

  Eye, Men, Animal

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• The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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• And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rivers, Bird, Ankh

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• As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

  Wayne Swan

  Climate, Cost, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

  Bill Mollison

  Technology, Creating, Urban Renewal

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• Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Soul, Visuals, Poisonous

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• The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.

  Tara Brown

  Long, Forever, World

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• My vision of a better world would be one under the control of a strong United Nations, one that truly has the support of all countries in the world. Only an effective world government could provide sufficient law and have the power to control the unboundaried destructive forces of pollution and war. I will continue to be a leader in the World Federalist Association.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Country, Strong, War

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• When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to transition to clean energy, they didn't have any fuel to burn, and they also had to transition to a healthy food system, an organic system - their economy is crashing, this was not a planned transition. This was a crisis, but a crisis nonetheless, in which pollution went away. And it's very instructive to see what happened to their health.

  Jill Stein

  Choices, Healthy, Energy

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a conference that I happened to be attending for the launch of an organization called Blacks in Green. I had never heard of him and Peter had never heard of me. We just started talking; he liked what I had to say, so he asked me if I'd be willing to be in this documentary he was doing about carbon pollution. I said, "Sure!" It was kind of a no-brainer.

  Van Jones

  White, Hair, Talking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees.

  Jay Leno

  Oregon, Agency, Tree

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• Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.

  Van Jones

  Atmosphere, Yards, Ordinary

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I guess music is the one universal art form that most people can be moved by, regardless of where they come from, and for many it might be the closest they get to god, but I think taking a trip out into the country, away from the light pollution, and looking at a clear night sky is what does it best for me.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Country, Art, Night

  Source: therumpus.net

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