Robert Orben Quotes

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

China is the world’s second largest economy, but the enormous costs of its growth are becoming apparent. Residents of its boom cities and a growing number of rural regions question the safety of the air they breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. It is as if they were living in the Chinese equivalent of the Chernobyl or Fukushima nuclear disaster areas. The environmental hazards here are legion, and the consequences might not manifest themselves for years or even decades.

I think the air in New York is death.

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.

Half of Americans breathe air that is unhealthy.

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.

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.

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

Being in smoggy Delhi was a gloomy feeling.

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

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

Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.

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

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.

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

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.

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

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

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

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

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.