Over the years, air pollution has become the most significant environmental challenge faced by people, especially in urban areas. Most often, it is caused by human activities like burning fossil fuels in thermal power plants, and other industrial processes like petroleum refining, smelting, mining, construction, transportation, agriculture etc. We also know that the atmosphere's air is a complex mixture of gases dominated by nitrogen, oxygen, argon and a variable amount of water vapour. Trace gases and particulates are also found within this mixture. Many of these are pollutants as their presence has a potentially deleterious effect on the environment. In addition to human sources of air pollution, it can also be caused by natural processes. For example, volcanic eruptions release Sulphur dioxide and other pollutants, which react in the atmosphere to produce volcanic smog,
Air pollution can lead to lung diseases in humans, allergies, and even death in humans; it can also cause harm to other living organisms such as animals and crops and may damage the natural environment. So we must take action to reduce air pollution. Already many government agencies, and social activists globally have started taking significant preventive measures to stop the depletion of air. Environmentalists also suggested different ways and various methods by which we can reduce air pollution individually.
In this article, you can find the top 35 powerful air pollution quotes ideal for inspiring people to take action immediately.
Famous Air Pollution Quotes
- “The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.” - Eddie Bernice Johnson
- “We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.” - Arvind Kejriwal
- “Urban forests provide a number of benefits to communities, including carbon sequestration, a reduction in air pollution and noise, conservation of energy for homeowners, habitation for animals and creation of forestry and manufacturing jobs.” - Nicole Malliotakis
- “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
- “If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.” - Mark Z. Jacobson
- “The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 per cent of the noise and 80 per cent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists”. - Stewart Udall
- “We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus”. - Caroline Lucas
- “Years of government inaction on air pollution have got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.” - Barry Gardiner
- “In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.” - Bjorn Lomborg
- “The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive regulations to limit emissions.” - Christine Todd Whitman
- “Climate change and air pollution know no borders and antibiotic resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America sick. The burning of Indonesian forests can keep Asia gasping for breath.” - Rohini Nilekani
- “Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that changes the energy equation.” - Clay Shirky
- “Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and 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.” - Ma Jun
- “Transportation is responsible for half of our state's air pollution, and many suffer as a result. Children are more likely to develop respiratory illnesses and struggle in school when they breathe smoggy air.” - Alex Padilla
- “We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air pollution, heating, and technology. But you have to know you have a depth within yourself that needs to be stimulated. If it doesn't get stimulated it becomes weaker, like a muscle that's not being used any more.” - Wim Hof
- “The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.” - Josh Fox
- “Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.” - Barry Gardiner
- “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
- “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- “Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. Renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.” - Lane Evans
- “Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely grey.” - Irv Kupcinet
- “I do not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air”. - William Shakespeare
- “Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.” - Julianne Moore
- “Do you want to cut down on air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!” - Walt Kelly
- “Air pollution is a threat to health, especially to older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll of our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
- “It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!” - George W Bush
- “Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.” - Olivar Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “If a man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.” - Margaret Mead
- “In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.” - Jonathan Raban
- “There's one thing you can say about air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.” - Terry Pratchett
- “Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city, we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.” - Li Bingbing
- “Eighty per cent of air pollution comes from plants and trees”. - Ronald Reagan
- “In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.” - Bjorn Lomborg
- “The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.” - Josh Fox
- “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.” - David Suzuki
- “I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.” - Cate Blanchett
- “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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