Terry Pratchett Quotes

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.

China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

There probably were floods when our land was newly settled but before we cut our trees so recklessly they were not so serious. If we go to the headwaters of our rivers and we will find the cause and the results which follow in the wake of man's destructive ignorance.

People worship and revere Ganga as a mother, and then throw away flowers in a plastic bag into the same river.

At nine, I started catching fish in Vancouver full of tumours from toxins.

Rivers are the arteries that carry the trash from land to sea.

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

The ocean is tired. It's throwing back at us what we're throwing in there.

Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.

From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.

BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.