#pollution

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#development #economic #economic development #mandated #new

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

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. ↗

— James Buchan

#crisis #economists #economy #failed #financial

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

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

#lungs #much #now #our #place

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

#air pollution #approximately #emission #enforcing #go

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#economic #economic growth #equivalent #government #growth

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

#dumping #effective #environment #failed #feel

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#doing #into #otherwise #pollution #something