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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. Votes: 4

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Pollution is an unused resource. Votes: 3

Bill Mollison

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Pollution should never be the price of prosperity. Votes: 3

Al Gore

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Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. Votes: 3

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly. Votes: 3

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. Votes: 3

Barry Commoner

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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. Votes: 3

Eddie Bernice Johnson

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The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Votes: 3

Theodore White

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Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste. Votes: 3

Patti Smith

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I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism, Votes: 3

Julia Gillard

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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. Votes: 3

Dan Quayle

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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. Votes: 3

Gunter Grass

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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. Votes: 3

Robert Orben

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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. Votes: 3

Ronald Reagan

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The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows. Votes: 3

Josh Fox

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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. Votes: 3

Jay Leno

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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. Votes: 3

Uri Geller

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Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air. Votes: 3

Alix Kates Shulman

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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. Votes: 3

Paul Krugman

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There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can. Votes: 3

Bob Woodward

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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. Votes: 3

Christian de Duve

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Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well. Votes: 3

P. J. O'Rourke

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In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. Votes: 3

Bjorn Lomborg

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Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them. Votes: 3

Neil Gaiman

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There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution. Votes: 2

Thomas Ehrlich

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The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. Votes: 2

Rene Dubos

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I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. Votes: 2

Gale Norton

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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. Votes: 2

Garrett Hardin

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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death. Votes: 2

Gerald Durrell

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The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. Votes: 2

Dixie Lee Ray

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I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent. Votes: 2

Steve Buyer

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In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. Votes: 2

Michael Pollan

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Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. Votes: 2

George Carlin

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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. Votes: 2

Louise Slaughter

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Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere. Votes: 2

Sheldon Whitehouse

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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 below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it. Votes: 2

Susan Sontag

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Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. Votes: 1

Irv Kupcinet

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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. Votes: 1

B. F. Skinner

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I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. Votes: 1

Stephen Hawking

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If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them. Votes: 1

Mark Z. Jacobson

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So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet. Votes: 1

Greg Graffin

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There is an incredible renewable energy resource off both coasts of this country - wind and tidal energy that can power our economy, create good paying jobs and reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Votes: 1

Chellie Pingree

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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. Votes: 1

Evo Morales

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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. Votes: 1

Al Gore

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The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. Votes: 1

James Buchan

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Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here. Votes: 1

Jeff Goodell

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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? Votes: 1

B. F. Skinner

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I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.' Votes: 1

Tig Notaro

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Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian. Votes: 1

Carlo Ratti

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The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone. Votes: 1

Aaron Peirsol

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When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. Votes: 1

Lois Lowry

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I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past. Votes: 1

Matt Ridley

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Trees cause pollution. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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noise is a pollution. Votes: 0

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Information Overload = "information pollution" Votes: 0

Jakob Nielsen

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Cars don't cause pollution, trees do. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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Nature's solution to pollution is dilution. Votes: 0

David Wolfe

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I rant and rave about noise pollution. Votes: 0

Robert Carlyle

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Spread your ear pollution far and wide. Votes: 0

Billy Squier

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The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution! Votes: 0

Bobby Seale

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No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Votes: 0

Robert Kennedy

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Talking about pollution, nobody's holy.They who pollute, sinned against nature. Votes: 0

Toba Beta

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Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere. Votes: 0

Alexandra Paul

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People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause. Votes: 0

Richard M. Nixon

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Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious. Votes: 0

Robert Lacey

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[There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution Votes: 0

Thomas Ehrlich

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Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller

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You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin'! Votes: 0

Walt Kelly

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It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air! Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty. Votes: 0

Akong Rinpoche

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...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. Votes: 0

Russell Kirk

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There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. Votes: 0

Tom Allen

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Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul. Votes: 0

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response Votes: 0

Tom Allen

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Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere. Votes: 0

Scott McClellan

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Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws. Votes: 0

Charles Duhigg

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People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it. Votes: 0

Ha-Joon Chang

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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution. Votes: 0

Jack Herer

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If fashion pollutes it should no longer be called fashion, it should be called pollution. Votes: 0

Horst Rechelbacher

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[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change. Votes: 0

Michael Bennet

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If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant. Votes: 0

Zhou Shengxian

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All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working? Votes: 0

Lawrence Summers

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Singing from your heart is like fresh air that heal you again from the pollution around you Votes: 0

Ahmed Farrag

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The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public. Votes: 0

Bernie Sanders

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A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution. Votes: 0

Suzy Kassem

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I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts. Votes: 0

Li Keqiang

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Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century. Votes: 0

Leonard Nimoy

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Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. Votes: 0

Jeff Merkley

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The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped. Votes: 0

Jill Stein

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It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. Votes: 0

Mark Ruffalo

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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. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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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 Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business. Votes: 0

Jesse Ventura

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He comes.And he comesloadedwith noise pollution.If I ever prayed for anything,it was for a manto shut up. Votes: 0

Casey Renee Kiser

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Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather. Votes: 0

Gloria Reuben

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There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure. Votes: 0

Gina McCarthy

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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. Votes: 0

A. J. Jacobs

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After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease. Votes: 0

Michael Bloomberg

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There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air. Votes: 0

Charles Duhigg

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Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder where you are. Looking up is no solution; The sky's so full of light pollution. Votes: 0

David H. Levy

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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. Votes: 0

Barry Commoner

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If you want to talk about the pollution coming from Ohio, please don't leave out the pollution coming your way from China. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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If you want to talk about the pollution coming from Ohio, please don't leave out the pollution coming your way from China. Votes: 0

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. Votes: 0

Simon Mainwaring

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How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. Votes: 0

Marion Nestle

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Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes. Votes: 0

James Wright

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Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? Votes: 0

Jeff Goodell

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Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables. Votes: 0

Kevin D. Williamson

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There are several issues why we are opposed to bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam agency region, like environmental pollution, threat to rivers, and tourism. Votes: 0

Kishore Chandra Deo

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Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate. Votes: 0

James Hansen

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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. Votes: 0

Wayne Swan

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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." Votes: 0

Wayne Swan

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I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution. Votes: 0

Marina Abramovic

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The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds. Votes: 0

Ken Auletta

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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. Votes: 0

Tara Brown

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Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. Votes: 0

Robert Orben

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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. Votes: 0

Stephen Harper

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We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin. Votes: 0

Vangelis

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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. Votes: 0

Kenneth E. Boulding

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When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards. Votes: 0

Gina McCarthy

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Look past the garbage, over the trains, Under the ruins, through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me...where I fit in? Votes: 0

Grandmaster Caz

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Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation. Votes: 0

Clay Shirky

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The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash Votes: 0

Heinz Wolff

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The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change. Votes: 0

Richard Burr

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The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space. Votes: 0

Eckhart Tolle

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Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that we hold dear. Votes: 0

Sheldon Whitehouse

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We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters. Votes: 0

Robert Kennedy

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The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population. Votes: 0

Reid Bryson

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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. Votes: 0

Greg Hunt

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In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it directly. Votes: 0

Bob Frank

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We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food. Votes: 0

Ralph Nader

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The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America... Votes: 0

Carol Browner

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We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less Votes: 0

Nicolas Sarkozy

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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. Votes: 0

Fay Godwin

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Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. Votes: 0

Francis Scott Key

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Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution. Votes: 0

Martin O'Malley

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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. Votes: 0

Gina McCarthy

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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. Votes: 0

Gina McCarthy

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Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development. Votes: 0

Li Keqiang

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Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development. Votes: 0

Li Keqiang

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The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation. Votes: 0

Pat Robertson

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Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan. Votes: 0

Jane D. Hull

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The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution. Votes: 0

Jeff Goodell

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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 incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions. Votes: 0

Fred Krupp

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Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble. Votes: 0

Howard Rheingold

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I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me. Votes: 0

Michael Moore

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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual. Votes: 0

Margaret Mead

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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. Votes: 0

Julianne Moore

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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution. Votes: 0

Pope John Paul II

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Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution. Votes: 0

Masanobu Fukuoka

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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? Votes: 0

Athenagoras of Athens

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Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction? Votes: 0

Vicki Robin

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More than four billion people live within a stone's throw of the ocean, so what happens to it affects them immediately, daily, whether pollution, more frequent storms, or rising sea levels. Votes: 0

Jon Bowermaster

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Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source. Breathin! (Churchy to Howland) Votes: 0

Walt Kelly

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Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution to nuclear radiation to most municipal tap waters. Votes: 0

David Wolfe

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ? Votes: 0

Plato

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The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution. Votes: 0

Joe Biden

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It's quite simple, they poisoned it with smoke, chemicals and pollution from factories and cars, and power stations. Silly humans knew what they were doing, but carried on poisoning the planet anyway. Votes: 0

Richard J. Ward

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As president, I'll set bold goals to combat climate change: generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America within 10 years and slash carbon pollution at home and around the world. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb. Votes: 0

Louise Slaughter

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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. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Children should be able to live a life free from electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure and radio frequency (RF) radiation pollution and it is time that we all took a stand against this. Votes: 0

Steven Magee

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I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution. Votes: 0

George Murray

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It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you? Votes: 0

Jeremy Hardy

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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. Votes: 0

Mary Kay Ash

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Unless we can act collectively, there would be no way to defend ourselves, no way to define or enforce property rights. We couldn't curb congestion or pollution or build and maintain public infrastructure. Votes: 0

Robert H. Frank

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Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase. Votes: 0

Paul Stamets

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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. Votes: 0

E. F. Schumacher

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Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist. Votes: 0

Al Gore

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Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard. Votes: 0

Kyra Sedgwick

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The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language. Votes: 0

Arne Tiselius

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Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization. Votes: 0

Al Gore

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Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures. Votes: 0

David Suzuki

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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. Votes: 0

Leslie Ludy

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If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this. Votes: 0

Julia Gillard

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For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands. Votes: 0

Margaret Mead

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The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness. Votes: 0

Stephen L. Richards

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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. Votes: 0

Geoffrey West

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The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air. Votes: 0

Janet Reno

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If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals. Votes: 0

Mark Bittman

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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

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If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.

Byron Katie

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If you order a milkshake at a diner and they mix dog poop into it, you probably wouldn't drink it. If you go into a town with pollution, you may survive and have a good visit, but you risk being poisoned.

Richard Rossi

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There will be no more danger, pollution or destruction, none of these things that we suffer from so much today. Everything will be heavenly, beautiful and natural, the way it was when God first created the earth.

David Berg

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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 years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

Al Gore

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You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

George Eliot

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Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.

Allen Hershkowitz

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If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.

Liv Ullmann

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Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change.

Nancy Knowlton

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People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting people work their way out of poverty without undermining community health, we have a moral obligation to do so.

Van Jones

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The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.

Barack Obama

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We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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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

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Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.

S. S. Wilson

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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 normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'.

Al Gore

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America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration rates and pollution. We can be a better country. I think we're going to be a better country.

Van Jones

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Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.

P. J. O'Rourke

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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

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Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.

Carol Browner

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If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

Aaron Peirsol

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From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking

Michael Palin

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The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global warming pollution reaches such toxic levels that the problem becomes bigger than we can solve.

Al Gore

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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

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Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.

David O. McKay

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I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.

P. J. O'Rourke

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Politically, I don't care what party you're from, offer a point of view and let's see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution.

Robin Williams

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While they [on Cuba] were eating a healthy and sustainable diet and had no pollution over a period of years these health improvements were sustained. They spent zero dollars improving their health, but they had an absolute miracle of health improvements.

Jill Stein

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It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.

Sharon Gannon

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If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.

Barack Obama

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In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.

Van Jones

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The term "free market' is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is "lawless market.' In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits) while socializing its costs (like pollution).

Steve Kangas

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Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts.

Gail Collins

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Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it...

Saul Gorn

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If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

Amit Goswami

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Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings.

Jill Stein

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What we've often seen is that when we Americans say, look, we've got to reduce pollution, business - some businesses complain about it, but almost every time, it's turned out to be easier and cheaper and accomplished faster, and they've gained confidence, and then we go farther.

Al Gore

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Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

Susan Sontag

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Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.

Edith Widder

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Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

Ivan Illich

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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

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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 war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

B. F. Skinner

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Air and water pollution (53 quotes)

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution. Votes: 4 Jeff Goodell

Air Pollution (63 quotes)

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. Votes: 3 Eddie Bernice Johnson

Beach pollution (21 quotes)

Chinese pollution (25 quotes)

Nature and pollution (26 quotes)

No pollution (22 quotes)

Noise pollution (33 quotes)

I rant and rave about noise pollution. Votes: 5 Robert Carlyle

Ocean pollution (11 quotes)

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation. Votes: 1 Ted Danson

Pollution and health (32 quotes)

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. Votes: 1 Jeff Merkley

Pollution control (30 quotes)

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. Votes: 3 Gale Norton

Pollution effects (44 quotes)

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. Votes: 1 Rene Dubos

Pollution environment (30 quotes)

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. Votes: 1 B. F. Skinner

Pollution global warming (41 quotes)

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. Votes: 1 Jeff Merkley

Pollution in china (6 quotes)

Pollution in environment (29 quotes)

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. Votes: 1 Dan Quayle

Pollution in the air (45 quotes)

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. Votes: 3 Robert Orben

Pollution in the ocean (14 quotes)

Pollution in the water (30 quotes)

Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes. Votes: 3 James Wright

Pollution of water (30 quotes)

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools. Votes: 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pollution prevention (9 quotes)

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. Votes: 3 Barry Commoner

Pollution responsibility (10 quotes)

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. Votes: 1 Fay Godwin

Pollution water (34 quotes)

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. Votes: 1 Gore Vidal

Preventing air pollution (21 quotes)

There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air. Votes: 1 Charles Duhigg

Reduce pollution (62 quotes)

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history. Votes: 3 Jonathan Safran Foer

Reducing pollution (33 quotes)

River pollution (13 quotes)

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. Votes: 1 Gore Vidal

Sea pollution (10 quotes)

Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution. Votes: 1 Martin O'Malley

Soil pollution (22 quotes)

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. Votes: 1 Marion Nestle

Thermal pollution (7 quotes)

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. Votes: 4 David R. Brower

Visual pollution (19 quotes)

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution. Votes: 3 George Murray

Water pollution (29 quotes)

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution. Votes: 7 Jeff Goodell

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