Rohini Nilekani Quotes

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

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

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

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

Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then 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.

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.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.

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

Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.

We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.

The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.

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

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

The amount of resources we put in are disparate. We put billions of dollars into fuel-efficient technologies. How much are we putting into energy behavior change in a credible, systematic, testing way?

Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.

Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.