Erin Brockovich Quotes

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.

Pollution knows no boundaries; it moves across borders.

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.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.

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

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

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

The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.

There are several issues why we are opposed to bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam agency region, like environmental pollution, threat to rivers, and tourism.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

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

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.