In this post I leave you 45 Phrases about pollution Environmental, water, air, auditory, soil...
Before beginning I comment some curious data of this global problem:
- People living in places with high levels of pollution have a 20% higher risk of lung cancer.
- The earth is surrounded in its orbit by more than 4 million kilos of space debris. The image was generated by NASA.
- More than 3 million children under 5 die each year from environmental effects.
- Pollution is one of the largest causes of mortality, affecting approximately 100 million people, comparable to diseases such as malaria or HIV.
- More than 10 billion kilograms of litter are dumped every year into the sea. Most plastic.
- Approximately 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die each year from pollution.
- Probably the most polluted city in the world is Liften (China), with more than 3 million citizens affected. He is followed by Tianying, also from China.
You may also be interested These phrases about the environment.
1-Human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.-Martin Cruz Smith.
2-Love is in the air but the air is highly contaminated.-Amit Abraham.
3-Decades of scientific research have proven that pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.-Jeff Merkley.
4-Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.-Al Gore.
5-When the earth is sick and contaminated, human health is impossible. To heal ourselves, we must heal our planet and to heal our planet, we must heal ourselves.-Bobby McLeod.
6-Sooner or later we will have to recognize that the land also has the right to live without pollution. What the human being must know is that they can not live without mother earth, but the land can live without humans.-Evo Morales.
7-Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.-Barry Commoner.
8-We already have the statistics of the future: high percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is here.-Gunter Grass.
9-Pollution disappears when we switch to renewable resources.-David Morris.
10-Erosion, desertification and pollution have become our destination. It's a strange form of suicide, since we're making our planet bleed.-Gerald Durrell.
11-The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.-Rene Dubos.
12-Much of the destruction of habitat and pollution is based on the simple principle that somehow we have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.-Greg Graffin.
13-I would like nuclear fusion to become a source of practical energy. It would provide an inexhaustible source of energy without pollution or global warming.-Stephen Hawking.
14-Doing everything we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and health costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by turning to renewable energy.-David Suzuki.
15-The health effects of pollution endanger human lives. This fact is well documented.-Eddie Bernice Johnson.
16-After 50 years fighting the problem of pollution, we have realized that, to be effective, we need laws, not voluntary agreements.-Don Henry.
17-There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the land as if it were a business in liquidation.-Herman Daly.
18-There is evidence of the relationship between vehicle pollution and respiratory diseases. We must do everything we can to get the highly polluting vehicles off the road.-Charlene Zettel.
19-Our planet is warming due to the contamination of human activities. And climate warming increases the odds of extreme weather.-Gloria Reuben.
20-The environmental effects of cars are well known: motor vehicles cause as much as 75% of the noise and 80% of air pollution in our cities.
21-There is so much air pollution that if it was not for our lungs, there would be no place to put it.-Robert Orben.
22-The government can not close its eyes to water pollution, soil erosion, or forest reduction more than it can do to the need for schools.-Franklin D. Roosevelt.
23-We have forgotten that the cycle of water and the cycle of life are one.-Jacques Cousteau.
24-Water and air, the two essential fluids on which life depends, have become global cans of garbage.-Jacques Cousteau.
25-Only we humans produce trash that nature can not digest.-Charles Moore.
26-Oceans are in danger, things are in danger, our marine resources are in danger. These are not challenges that we can put aside. -James Watkins.
27-Pollution is the precursor of doom.-John Trapp.
28-Do not ruin it-good planets are hard to find.-Time.
29-There is enough in the world for human need but not for human greed.-Mohandas K. Gandhi.
30-Anything you're interested in will not happen if you can not breathe or drink. Do something.-Carl Sagan.
31-It produces immense sadness to think that nature speaks while the human race does not listen to it.-Victor Hugo.
32-The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.-John F. Kennedy.
33-What we are doing to the forests of the world is a mirror of what we do to ourselves and to others.-Mahatma Gandhi.
"I just feel pissed when I see garbage." When I see people throwing things that we could use.-Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
35-Our survival is intimately linked to the food we eat, the water we drink and the places we live. Therefore we must promote responsibility and conservation when we refer to natural resources.-Mark Udall.
36-Virtually all our environmental problems can be reduced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.-Dennies Weaver.
More than half of the world's major rivers are seriously contaminated and depleted, degrading and poisoning the ecosystems that surround them, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend on it for watering, drinking or use Industrial-Ismail Serageldin.
38-The proper use of science is not to conquer nature, but to live in it.-Barry Commoner.
39-Man is the owner of his destiny and his destiny is the earth and he himself is destroying it until he has no destination.-Frida Kahlo.
40-We live on earth as if we have another to go to. -Terry Swearingen.
41-Conservation is a state of harmony between man and earth.-Aldo Leopold.
42-Faith on the living planet is the most important issue facing humanity.-Gaylord Nelson.
43-To appreciate what is left of the earth and to encourage its renewal is our hope of survival.-Wendell Berry.
44-Climate change is occurring, humans are causing it and I think it is perhaps the most serious environmental problem we face.-Bill Nye.
45-People should be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.-Russell Honore.