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Overfishing, global warming and pollution are destroying the ocean.
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
- Frances Beinecke
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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
- Gunter Grass
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
- Jack Herer
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There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
- Bob Woodward
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As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.
- Wayne Swan
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Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.
- James Hansen
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If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.
- Mark Z. Jacobson
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The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
- Jeff Goodell
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
- Ted Danson
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Trees face many difficulties, what with deforestation and pollution, but that didn't stop me from wanting to be one - to just stop feeling and live.
- Emma Gonzalez
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We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
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Creativity for the greater good is where I aspire to be, and I mean that on several levels: of course, working with worthy causes that need support but also not just contributing to the pollution of crap advertising.
- David Droga
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I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.
- Paula Jean Swearengin
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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
- Louise Slaughter
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How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.
- Marion Nestle
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On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
- Ma Jun
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The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.
- Stewart Udall
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The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.
- Hubert Burda
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
- Ma Jun
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All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.
- Merce Cunningham
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
- Barbara Lee
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I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.
- George Murray
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I have acknowledged the problem and have spent my time in Congress focusing on solutions - including developing clean and efficient energy that grows our economy and creates jobs while also lowering pollution levels and protecting the environment.
- Rob Portman
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Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.
- Charles Duhigg
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The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive regulations to limit emissions.
- Christine Todd Whitman
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The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
- Chai Jing
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I rant and rave about noise pollution.
- Robert Carlyle
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I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.
- Ma Jun
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Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
- Ma Jun
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
- Ma Jun
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
- Ma Jun
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There are definitely parts of Asia, Central America that when you look at them from space, you're always looking through a haze of pollution. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, and being able to see the surface, you know, I would say definitely those areas that I mentioned look kind of sick.
- Scott Kelly
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Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
- Carlo Ratti
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To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution, the stuff that has been accumulating for decades and doesn't go away by itself. But, two, we need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place.
- Boyan Slat
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So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
- Greg Graffin
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I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.
- Jack W. Szostak
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The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.
- Shashi Tharoor
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I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.
- Steve Buyer
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We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution.
- Eric Schneiderman
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Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use.
- Jeff Van Drew
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Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.
- Barry Gardiner
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With pollution from traffic a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, we should be building a transport and planning system that makes car-free travel for shorter distances the norm for the majority.
- Caroline Lucas
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We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.
- Caroline Lucas
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Hinkley will be a ghost town. It will be another town lost in America due to pollution.
- Erin Brockovich
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China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.
- Ma Jun
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
- Ma Jun
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
- Frances Beinecke
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Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
- Frances Beinecke
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Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.
- Michael E. Mann
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Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.
- Gloria Reuben
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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
- David R. Brower
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I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
- Gale Norton
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We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.
- Arvind Kejriwal
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If you've been to China, you know there are over 100 cities in China, and the pollution levels are just horrific - 60,000 people a year die in Chinese factories and facilities because they don't have any safety regulations. It's a carnage; it's Dickensian.
- Peter Navarro
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Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.
- Jeff Goodell
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Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America sick. The burning of Indonesian forests can keep Asia gasping for breath.
- Rohini Nilekani
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My wife's biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She's convinced that's the big problem. And my own is sink holes and the inevitability of us all, at some point, collapsing into a sink hole and never being seen again.
- Jon Richardson
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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
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There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
- Ma Jun
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I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?'
- Robert Kennedy, Jr.
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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
- Ronald Reagan
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
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Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.
- Barry Gardiner
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Your skin is a barrier that protects you from environmental aggressors like pollution, bacteria and moisture loss.
- Paul Nassif
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There are several issues why we are opposed to bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam agency region, like environmental pollution, threat to rivers, and tourism.
- Kishore Chandra Deo
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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
- Garrett Hardin
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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 Orben
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Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
- Ma Jun
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
- Dan Quayle
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
- B. F. Skinner
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
- B. F. Skinner
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I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
- Stephen Hawking
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The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.
- Joe Biden
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In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
- Michael Pollan
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
- Barry Commoner
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