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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.”

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Author:Louise Slaughter

“Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will it take? How many preventable catastrophes until our leaders realize that climate change will not be solved by nice speeches and empty promises? Countries like Canada and the U.S. have promised to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and provide adequate financial support for developing countries, they have so far failed on both counts.”

“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.”

Economy Environment Security Depends Threat Climate Climate Change Significant Contribution Gas Pollution Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Gina McCarthy

“Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.”

Jobs Opportunity Energy Nations Growth Millions Air Security Cost Fuel Pollution Dependence Pumps Air Pollution Ethanol Energy Security

Author:Lane Evans

“Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.”

People World Problem Moving Cities Quality Bigger Environmental Enormous Pollution Site Urban Quality Of Life Environmental Pollution

Author:Alan Dundes

“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.”

“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.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“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.”

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Author:E. F. Schumacher

“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.”

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Author:Glenn T. Seaborg

“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.”

Heart Children Brain Air Terrible Doctors Scientist Our Children Damage Pollution Lungs Air Pollution

Author:Julianne Moore

“You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.”

“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.”

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Author:Jeremy Jackson

“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.”

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Author:Majora Carter

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

World Years Lost Millions Healthy Europe Organization Noise Healthcare Pollution Healthy Living World Health World Health Organization Noise Pollution

Author:A. J. Jacobs

“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?”

People Should Looks Guilt Killing Contracts Pollution Rejected Spectacles Coliseum

Author:Athenagoras of Athens

“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?”

People Care Values Games Vision Gun Prison Profit Mutual Pollution Dysfunction Rules Of The Game

Author:Vicki Robin

“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.”

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Book:Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman

Source: Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman

“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.”

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Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.”

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Author:Maneka Gandhi

“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.”

“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”

Needs Taxes Aim Fuel Pollution Fossils Fossil Fuel

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“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”

Thinking World Done Produce Waste West Around The World Developing Damage Pollution Evident Careless

Author:Michael Palin

“...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.”

Conservative Pollution Degradation Countryside

Author:Russell Kirk

“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.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970

“We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.”

People Should Causes Pay Conservative Pollution

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

“The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.”

“I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.”

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Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.”

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Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

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

Way Technology Economic Development Transformation Productions Pollution Prevention Economic Development Wholesale

Author:Barry Commoner

“Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.”

Causes Tree Car Environmental Pollution

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.”

“We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now. We must not let the [Bush] Administration distort science and rewrite and manipulate scientific reports in other areas. We must not let it turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Pollution Agency.”

“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.”

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Author:Fay Godwin

“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.”

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Author:Al Gore

“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.”

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Author:Josh Fox

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

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

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Author:Marina Abramovic

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

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

People Way Used Too Much Pollution Commercialism

Author:Bob Dylan

“That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.”

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Author:Van Jones

“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?”

“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”

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Author:John Bunyan

“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.”

Walks Easier Bird Rivers Legs Surface Pollution Ankh

Author:Terry Pratchett

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

Way Dangerous Cost Climate Climate Change Accepted Efficient Pollution Carbon Lowest

Author:Wayne Swan

“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”

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

Soul Visuals Pollution Poisonous

Author:Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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

Ifs World Long Forever Mankind Quiet Noise Pollution Inhale Noise Pollution

Author:Tara Brown

“If fashion pollutes it should no longer be called fashion, it should be called pollution.”

Ifs Should Fashion Pollution

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

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