I spend a year
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. Gale Norton
Air Pollution
The health effects of
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. Eddie Bernice Johnson
We have lots of
We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There are problems with air pollution around the country that we need to deal with, and around the world. We have a great many problems to overcome, so I work on a … Read more
One must be a
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. Friedrich Nietzsche
Overpopulation in the United
Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse. Frosty Wooldridge
Today, people are talking
Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral values, and so on. As a result, many other concerns have come to the fore: peace, contentment, ecology, justice, tolerance, and dialogue. Unfortunately, despite certain promising precautions, those who should be … Read more
Like a man who
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. Chief Seattle
It’s perilous and foolhardy
It’s perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology. Carl Sagan
In the rich world,
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
Air pollution is not
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures. Barry Commoner