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Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms . Pollution can take the form of chemical substances, or energy, such as noise, heat, or light. Pollutants, the elements...
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Filter this CollectionI durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
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- William Shakespeare
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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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.
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- Ronald Reagan
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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- Buckminster Fuller
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
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- Hubert Humphrey
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Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
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- Leonard Cohen
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- x Spoken by character (if from fictional work):
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
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- John Steinbeck
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