Brittany Bowe Quotes

Half of Americans breathe air that is unhealthy.

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.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

I live in L.A. - I love L.A., first off - but I didn't realize how much better the air quality was in Vancouver until I went back to L.A. for a weekend and I literally felt like I was breathing fire.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.

Experimental evidence [shows strongly] that the chemical purity of the air is of no importance [to health.]

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

It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot of them are writing to me.

We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.

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

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.

Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.

Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.

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

… the lungs of London

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