Scott Kelly Quotes

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

As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.

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.

There are definitely parts of Asia, Central America that when you look at them from space, you're always looking through a haze of pollution. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, and being able to see the surface, you know, I would say definitely those areas that I mentioned look kind of sick.

There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we've seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon.

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

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

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to all the resources being used and the pollution and felt strongly that for our generation, the biggest economic and societal problem is energy.

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.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century

We will run out of air long before we run out of oil.

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

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.