If the world is polluted, we are polluted. If the world dies, we die anyway. I don't pretend to be separate from the world. If she is poisoned, I jump in and be poisoned with her.
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
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.
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 fail...
In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to...
I rant and rave about noise pollution.
When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted and the last fish has been caught -- only then do you realize that money can't buy everything:
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature,” Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. “I didn’t create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Ol...
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
Nausicaä: Every one of us relies on water from the wells, because mankind has polluted all the lakes and rivers. but do you know why the well water is pure? It's because the trees of the wastelands purify it! And you plan to burn the trees down? You...
We line up and make a lot of noise about big environmental problems like incinerators, waste dumps, acid rain, global warming and pollution. But we don't understand that when we add up all the tiny environmental problems each of us creates, we end up...
Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
