Pollution

Don’t litter. Here are some proverbs and quotes about pollution.

Pollution Litter
Pollution of air, land and water.


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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan
His 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 Thunberg

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
Jeff Merkley

Doing 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 Suzuki

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.
Marion Nestle

I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.
Bernie Sanders

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
Bill Bryson

Oil is the devil's excrement.
Juan Pérez Alfonzo

Our 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 Geller

Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
Frances Beinecke

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

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
B.F. Skinner

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

The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.
George S. McGovern

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam Chomsky

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
Ma Jun

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
Victoria Principal

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Cousteau

We 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 Pinker
Source: How the Mind Works

We are slowly running out of planets to inhabit.
Anthony T. Hincks

We 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




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