#pollution

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#around #better #billions #contempt #contemptuous

What I struggle with is that every thing excites me, cities, supermarkets, roads, dirt, rubbish, car parks, advertising, people, deforestation, excavation, fires, floods and violence. All of these things can be beautiful, yet I see the damage; the pain the obscenity of everything. When I am in the city, I long for the country the open space around me, yet in the city I enjoy all that goes on around me. ↗

— Teo Ormond-Skeaping

#city #nature #pollution #urban #beauty

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#earth #exhausting #favors #indeed #our

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

#energy #fusion #global #global warming #i

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution. ↗

— Jack Herer

#done #i #pollution #something #wait

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. ↗

— Tom Allen

#national #plants #pollution #power #power plants

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

— Barry Commoner

#environmental #incurable #only #pollution #prevented

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. ↗

— Rene Dubos

#effects #extremely #important #indirect #most

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

#allow #because #been #disperse #harvesting

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

#around #aside #been #city #crap