Pollution is anything that makes the earth dirty and unhealthy. Pollution happens when trash, chemicals, or other substances contaminate the Earth’s air, water, or land. Pollution comes in many forms, but it always brings harm to the world we live in. When land, water, and air get exposed to pollution, people, animals, and plants suffer. Environmental pollution has become a globally pervasive problem. As long as people live on Earth, there is no way to completely stop pollution. It is clear that the amount and types of waste generated by human activities are beyond the capacity of natural ecosystems to process and detoxify. Environmental science has offered many scientific and technological solutions for pollution abatement.
I also know that many of my readers are concerned about the topic and are willing to start a movement against Pollution by environmental Quotes. In this article, I have compiled 50+ famous and greatest Quotes on pollution.
Quotes on Pollution -
- "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value." - R. Buckminster Fuller
- "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.
- "It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." - Dan Quayle
- "Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that governments should be protecting us against." - Barry Gardiner
- "I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming." - Stephen Hawking
- "The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned." - B.K. Skinner
- "The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will." - Chai Jing
- "The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally." - M.S. Swaminathan.
- "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentage of pollution, overpopulation, and desertification. The future is already in place." - Gunter Grass
- "Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth’s climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now." - Frances Beinecke
- "If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy source." - Michael Shellenberger
- "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
- "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
- "Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/ or, but both/and." - Klaus Schwab
- "The Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants will create clean-energy jobs, improve public health, bring greater reliability to our electric power grid, bolster our national security, demonstrate the United States' resolve to combat climate change and maybe even reduce our utility bills." - Martin Luther King III
- "In developed countries, strong rules are in place to restrict sound pollution and curb its deadly effects. As law-abiding citizens with social responsibility, we should all come together against this unhealthy trend." - Mohanlal
- "Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economics, and energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That’s where all these problems come from." - Geoffrey West
- "The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favourite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It’s become a case of not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone." - Aaron Peirsol
- "Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans." - Jacqes Yves Cousteau
- "Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species - yet we haven’t had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems." - Philippe Cousteau Jr.
- "I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution" - Bernie Sanders
- "Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has the right, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without humans" - Evo Morales
- "The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking." - Henry Rollins
- "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
- "Pollution should never be the price of prosperity" - Al Gore
- "It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." - Dan Quayle
- "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
- "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 strongest government on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on ordinary people, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will." - Chai Jing
- "Today we’re dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed." - Al Gore
- "The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned." - B.F. Skinner
- "There are people who take rumours and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can." - Bob Woodward
- "Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes exceed wastewater discharge standards and even cause heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health." - Ma Jun
- "Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, overpopulation, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled from the society around them, but that only makes it more important to protect them and keep them whole and pure." - Michael Frome
- "Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use." - Jeff Van Drew
- "The challenge of pollution and global warming is no longer the science or the rate of innovation, but the rate of implementation: We have the clean solutions; now let’s bundle them and install them." - Jens Martin Skibsted
- "We must act to reduce the increasingly dangerous and destructive levels of carbon pollution that account for practically all of global climate change." - Ted Lieu
- "Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here." - Jeff Goodell
- "I’ll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It’s completely irrational, and I don’t get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought into this fiction that one has to choose between the environment and business, which is just a complete falsehood and absurd." - Steven Van Zandt
- "Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well-behaved?" - Jeff Goodell
- "We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs." - Sheldon Whitehouse
- "If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy." - Bernie Sanders
- "Trees face many difficulties, what with deforestation and pollution, but that didn’t stop me from wanting to be one - to just stop feeling and live." - Emma Gonzalez