Ornette Coleman Quotes

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough.

There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out.

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.

People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.

Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

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.

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated, and the water was really different. It was really strange, because you're on the other side of the planet, and you think, 'Oh, water is the same everywhere,' and it is, but it still felt strange.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.

It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.

My fear is that we are losing sight of how much we depend on the EPA to protect not just our environment but the people who live in it.

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

There's a lot of worse things going on in the world than me hitting a bad five wood.

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

The Tories are trying to lock the country into the old, dirty technologies that harm our communities and the people who are forced to live with disruption on their doorstep.

Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting into the earth? And the pesticides we're putting into the earth? What we're releasing into the air? Instead, we just cut off more organs! That's where metaphor comes into it - not even metaphor as much as reality.

Climate change and variations particularly impact many aspects of life that are inextricably linked to health: food security, economic livelihoods, air safety, and water and sanitation systems. Gender differences in health risks are likely to be worsened by climate change.

Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.

When the climate hurts, people and businesses also feel the pain.