Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

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.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

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

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

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

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

What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

Environmental crimes often and in death and disease

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

I have always seen pollution as theft.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

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

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

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.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

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

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

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.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

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