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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

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.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.

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.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

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