#pollution

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

#cannot #earth #human #human beings #humans

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. ↗

— George Murray

#around #aside #been #city #crap

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. ↗

— Robert Orben

#lungs #much #now #our #place

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

— Dan Quayle

#doing #environment #harming #our #pollution

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. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#air pollution #approximately #emission #enforcing #go

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

— Al Gore

#doing #environment #harming #our #pollution

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. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#economic #economic growth #equivalent #government #growth

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. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#air pollution #been #coastal #cut #dramatically

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

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#air pollution #effects #fact #health #human

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. ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#could #flight #footsteps #foul #gloom