The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?'
There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don't pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it's a cheaper way of producing something else.
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