Li Bingbing Quotes

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

Delhi becomes a gas chamber every year with the advent of winters, mainly due to stubble burning.

In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!

I'm from Los Angeles... I don't trust any air I can't see.

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.

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

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

… the lungs of London

L.a. 's air pollution has turned an environmental issue into everybody's issue.

Our children should not have to draw the breath of life in a city awash in pollution.

Climate change carries implications that stretch far beyond extreme weather, however. The effects on public health are far more alarming - and those have to be taken into account in order to calculate an accurate estimate of the costs of inaction.

With the approaching winter the air quality in many Indian cities, especially in Delhi, becomes a public health hazard. Something so fundamental as breathing easy can no longer be taken for granted. It's a wake-up call worthy of a civic revolution.

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.

I live in Los Angeles, I know it exists. I know you're not supposed to taste air.

Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.

In Washington, the air quality today was described as 'red.'...You know what 'red' is? It's bad for everyone. Not just old people, sick people and babies. When it's just bad for old people, sick people and babies, that's called a Republican budget.

India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

If you live in the States, you see the windmill signal on your smartphone all the time. It's like living in Beijing air. You have to remember the blue sky.

Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative health impacts from this constant exposure can add up.

The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A. is required to publish a list of 'stationary sources' of air pollution, of which the most important are power plants.

I wrote an essay about leaf blowers and the evil they do.

Clean air and clean ocean, you can't translate that into money if you look at the cost to health, cost to fishery industry.

I think the air in New York is death.