#pollution

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

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. ↗

— Al Gore

#dumping #effective #environment #failed #feel

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#doing #into #otherwise #pollution #something

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. ↗

— Martin Cruz Smith

#humanity #nature #nuclear #nuclear-war #pollution

When you look at environmental problems in the U.S., nearly all of them have their source in food production and in particular meat production. And factory farming is "optimal" only as long as degrading waterways is free. ↗

— Gidon Eshel

#farming #geophysics #pollution #food

Some may wonder whether part of the harvest of this invisible pollution (electromagnetic radiation) may be the comparative rarity of visionary experience in the modern world, and the predominence of a removed, overanalytical, repelling 'onlooker' intelligence in its place, resembling that of the (Martin) Amis hero (who will not see because he cannot feel). If this is so, such an intelligence has produced conditions favoring its evolution and survival. ↗

— Peter Redgrove

#em-pollution #martin-amis #rationality #experience

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#noise #noise-pollution #intelligence

Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted ↗

— Amit Abraham

#love #pollution #love

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ↗

— Theodore White

#democracy #flood #into #money #pollution