Quotes with pollution

  • I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

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  • Günter Grass We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Ronald Reagan 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
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Alan Dundes 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.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Barry Commoner Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Hawking 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
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bernie Sanders If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Dan Quayle It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti 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
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • B. F. Skinner 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
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller 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 Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Barry Commoner Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • J. Sparrow That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution, the dog.
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  • B. F. Skinner The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Rene Dubos The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
    Rene Dubos
    French-American microbiologist, pathologist and environmentalist
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  • Bob Woodward 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
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bill Gates What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Lee What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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