Don’t litter. Here are some proverbs and quotes about pollution.
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald ReaganHis own desk?
Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah. This is all we hear from our so-called leaders.
Greta ThunbergDecades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
Jeff MerkleyDoing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
David SuzukiEnvironmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry CommonerHow we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.
Marion NestleI see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.
Bernie SandersI see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
Bill BrysonOil is the devil's excrement.
Juan Pérez AlfonzoOur meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
Uri GellerPollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
Frances BeineckeSooner 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 MoralesThe environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
B.F. SkinnerThe flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore WhiteThe free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.
George S. McGovernThere are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam ChomskyThere is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
Ma JunUnless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
Victoria PrincipalWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques CousteauWe are all intuitive physicists, biologists, engineers, psychologists, and mathematicians. Thanks to these inborn talents, we outperform robots and have wreaked havoc on the planet.
Steven PinkerSource: How the Mind Works
We are slowly running out of planets to inhabit.
Anthony T. HincksWe are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
Ban Ki-moon