#pollution

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#bad #both #children #coming #development

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

#consumption #continue #cool #electrical #energy

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

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#noise #noise-pollution #intelligence

Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted ↗

— Amit Abraham

#love #pollution #love

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ↗

— Theodore White

#democracy #flood #into #money #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