Evan Osnos Quotes

I think the air in New York is death.

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

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.

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.

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

There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

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

Being in smoggy Delhi was a gloomy feeling.

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.

I'm from Los Angeles... I don't trust any air I can't see.

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 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.

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.

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

Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

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.

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

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.

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.

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

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

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

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.