Pollution Quotes - Page 9

• Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Destiny, Civilization, Shopping

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• While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.

  James H. Cone

  Technological Development, Environmental, Bears

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• Cuando se trata de lluvia ácida, vertidos de petróleo, agotamiento de recursos pesqueros, aguas subterráneas contaminadas, propulsores de fluorocarbono, fugas de radiación o enfermedades de transmisión sexual, las fronteras nacionales son irrelevantes. Las toxinas no se detienen en las inspecciones aduaneras y los microbios no llevan pasaporte. Norteamérica se convirtió en una zona acuática y de libre comercio mucho antes de que el TLCAN flexibilizara el mercado de bienes.

  Benjamin Barber

  Lluvia, Simple, Zona comercial

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• Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
  How I wonder where you are.
  Looking up is no solution;
  The sky's so full of light pollution.

  David H. Levy

  Estrellas, Luz, Cielo

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• What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast campaign of organic renewal. The problem is the cost of an effective operation, which is enormous, and thus must be paid by someone via some form of taxes.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Government, Environmental, Campaigns

  Immanuel Wallerstein (2011). “The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World”, p.62, New Press, The

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• We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dedication, Goal, Perfection

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• You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God.

  Oscar Romero

  Commitment, Cutting, Air

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• Sabemos que librar hoy una guerra nuclear, por ejemplo, sería una forma de suicidio; o que contaminar el aire o los océanos para conseguir algún beneficio a corto plazo sería destruir la base misma de nuestra supervivencia.

  Dalai Lama

  Suicidio, Guerra, Océano

  Su Santidad El Dalai Lama (1998). "Path To Tranquility", p.136, Penguin Books India

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• Podemos decidir que la presencia de sustancias cancerígenas en nuestro aire, agua y alimentos es demasiado cara. Un estudio de 2009, por ejemplo, ha revelado que la minería del carbón en los Apalaches cuesta a la región cinco veces más en muertes prematuras, incluso por cáncer, de lo que aporta a la región en puestos de trabajo, impuestos y beneficios económicos. En California, la producción y el uso de sustancias químicas peligrosas costaron al estado 2.600 millones de dólares sólo en 2004 en salarios perdidos y gastos sanitarios para tratar a trabajadores y niños con enfermedades relacionadas con la contaminación.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Empleo, niños, cáncer

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• Aquí en Estados Unidos, un estudio realizado con casi 700 mujeres en California mostró un mayor riesgo de muerte fetal entre los bebés cuyas madres vivían cerca de cultivos en los que se fumigaban ciertos pesticidas. Los mayores riesgos se encontraron entre las mujeres embarazadas expuestas durante el crítico primer trimestre y entre las que vivían en la misma milla cuadrada donde se utilizaban pesticidas.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Madre, Bebé, Cuadrados

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). "Tener fe: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood", p.94, Da Capo Press.

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• We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Strong, Air

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• Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

  Bernie Sanders

  Oil, Climate, Needs

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• What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The crop which poses the greatest danger, and the focus of our struggle, is the table grape crop. These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike.

  César Chávez

  Dolor, Real, Lucha

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.264, Penguin

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• Draconian limits on economic growth and on the use of the automobile should not be necessary in order to give Americans clean air at levels they are willing to pay for, but it will require significant Federal, State, and local leadership and innovative approaches from government and industry.

  George H. W. Bush

  Government, Air, Order

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• Information Overload = "information pollution"

  Jakob Nielsen

  Information, Information Overload, Overload

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• Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?

  Malvina Reynolds

  Fall, Rain, Eye

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• And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and more to the point the darkness of our time that makes people seek escape in drugs. There is the slow poisoning of what we call "the environment" of all things as if with that absurdly antiseptic phrase we can conceal from ourselves that what we are really poisoning is home, is here, is us.

  Frederick Buechner

  Guerra, Hogar, Gente

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• Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

  Papa Pablo VI

  Men, Creating, Risk

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• Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

  Winona LaDuke

  Community, Environmental, Focal Point

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• Ahora nuestros mayores problemas medioambientales proceden de nuestras propias acciones, de nuestras propias elecciones, y no de la contaminación producida por las grandes empresas.

  Jesse Ventura

  Opciones, Medio Ambiente, Acción

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• Every one of you sitting here today is carrying at least 500 measurable chemicals in your body that were never in anybody's body before the 1920s... We have dusted the globe with man-made chemicals that can undermine the development of the brain and behavior, and the endocrine, immune and reproductive systems, vital systems that assure perpetuity... Everyone is exposed.

  Theo Colborn

  Men, Brain, Sitting

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• You are not exposed to one chemical at a time, but a complex mixture of chemicals that changes day by day, hour by hour, depending on where you are and the environment you are in... In the United States alone it is estimated that over 72,000 different chemicals are used regularly. Two thousand five hundred new chemicals are introduced annually-and of these, only 15 are partially tested for their safety. Not one of the chemicals in use today has been adequately tested for these intergenerational effects that are initiated in the womb.

  Theo Colborn

  Two, Safety, Environmental

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• Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

  Akong Rinpoche

  War, Epidemics, Disease

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• The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global warming pollution reaches such toxic levels that the problem becomes bigger than we can solve.

  Al Gore

  Reality, Toxic, Levels

  "¿Qué demonios creen que lo está causando?". Entrevista con John Dickerson, www.slate.com. 8 de diciembre de 2009.

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• Trees cause pollution.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tree, Causes

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