Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

An American's refrigerant can cause a New Zealander's skin cancer.

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.

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

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.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

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

Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled.

Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

To save my live I cannot see what right we have to control the air that God Almighty gave the people.

Every American deserves to breathe clean air.

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

China’s air quality is grim, and the amount of pollution emissions far exceeds the environment’s capacity.

Stratospheric ozone depletion threatens us with enhanced ultraviolet radiation at the earth's surface, which can be damaging or lethal to many life forms. Air pollution near ground level, and acid precipitation, are already causing widespread injury to humans, forests, and crops.

We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what they were doing and they put some cement up there.

We happen to believe that emissions going into the atmosphere are not good for us as humans or Mother Earth.

On this 50th Earth Day, we face a crisis unknown to those who gathered on the first Earth Day - the climate crisis.