Dan Quayle Quotes

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

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

Environmental degradation and pollution constrain economic growth, contribute to large-scale migration, harm public health, and engender social unrest.

China is the world’s second largest economy, but the enormous costs of its growth are becoming apparent. Residents of its boom cities and a growing number of rural regions question the safety of the air they breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. It is as if they were living in the Chinese equivalent of the Chernobyl or Fukushima nuclear disaster areas. The environmental hazards here are legion, and the consequences might not manifest themselves for years or even decades.

There's so much out in the world that is not good for the environment.

We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what they were doing and they put some cement up there.

I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

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

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

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.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

The causal chain of the deterioration (of the environment) is easily followed to its source. Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticide, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide---all can be traced easily to too many people.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century

Pollution knows no boundaries; it moves across borders.