Pollution quotes

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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.

- Robert Orben100

◆ Pollution is the forerunner of perdition

- John Trapp99

◆ [There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."

- Thomas Ehrlich99

◆ In 22 states parents cant take kids fishing and eat the fish if theyre lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44% of all river bodies and streams its not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ [There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."

- Thomas Ehrlich99

◆ [There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."

- Thomas Ehrlich99

◆ [There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."

- Thomas Ehrlich99

◆ Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury poisoning arent real. No, lobbyists for the big industries just say they cant afford to make changes.

- Senator John Kerry99

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

- Dan Quayle99

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

- Alexandra Paul99

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

- Jack Herer99

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

- Eddie Bernice Johnson99

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

- Theodore H White99

◆ When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears

- African Proverb99

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

- Richard Buckminster Fuller99