Air pollution is when harmful particles or substances are in the air hurting human health and the environment. It mostly comes from cars industry and burning fuels.
To fight it we can use public transport cut down on car emissions and use clean energy. The issue is worldwide.
Picture a smoggy city where people wear masks rushing to work. This scene is real in many places.
Air pollution harms our health nature and even our wallets. It’s a serious problem needing attention now.
Quotes and slogans can help spread the word.
Let’s dive in.
Air Pollution Quotes
In an underdeveloped country don’t drink the water. In a developed country don’t breathe the air. ~ Jonathan Raban.
There’s one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises. ~ Terry Pratchett.
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. ~ Chief Seattle.
You wouldn’t think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we’ll do it one day. That’s how negligent we are. ~ Ian Rankin.
For your temporary comfort, don’t permanently kill the innocent life of all living beings on the earth, the plastic. ~ Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar.
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. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~ Robert Orben.
I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. ~ William Shakespeare.
Environmental pollution is not only humanity’s treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan.
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. ~ Eddie Bernice Johnson.
Quotes about Air Pollution
Plastic disposal not only pollutes the land but the water and the air, the three primary elements for any living being on the earth. ~ Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source… Breathin! ~ Walt Kelly
Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted. ~ Amit Abraham
It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air! ~ George W. Bush
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Y’see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source… Breathin! ~ Walt Kelly
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. ~ Martin Cruz Smith
Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air. ~ Barry Gardiner
Roses are red, violets are blue, bad hair days are okay, but bad air days will screw you. ~ Abhijit Naskar
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. ~ Ronald Reagan
Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. ~ Irv Kupcinet
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. ~ Gale Norton
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus. ~ Caroline Lucas.
Best Air Pollution Quotes
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do. ~ Majora Carter
Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation. ~ Li Bingbing
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists. ~ Stewart Udall
We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There are problems with air pollution around the country that we need to deal with, and around the world. We have a great many problems to overcome, so I work on a lot of different boards trying to help in those important areas. ~ Ed Begley, Jr.
The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them … It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play. ~ Robert Kennedy
On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that’s what’s begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when – starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease. ~ Jill Stein
Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse. ~ Frosty Wooldridge
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands. ~ Margaret Mead
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows. ~ Josh Fox.
Insightful Air Pollution Quotes
The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can’t breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution. ~ Joe Biden
It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously a public health issue. One out of eight premature deaths worldwide happens because of air pollution. The worst power plant in America kills 278 people a year and causes 445 heart attacks. So, when we improve air quality we improve our lives, and at the same time we improve the climate as well. We must see climate policy from this perspective and not as an abstract threat that may threaten our survival in 100 years. ~ Michael Bloomberg
In my home state of Delaware, we’ve done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we’ve made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air. ~ Thomas Carper
Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown, the biggest cause of river pollution and a hefty source of air pollution. ~ George Monbiot
The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population. ~ Reid Bryson
My wife’s biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She’s convinced that’s the big problem. And my own is sink holes and the inevitability of us all, at some point, collapsing into a sink hole and never being seen again. ~ Jon Richardson
The best scenario of all when it comes to air pollution has nothing to do with tailpipe filters or hybrid, electric, or zero emissions car technology. The way to reduce pollution is to reduce driving, plain and simple. ~ Elly Blue
The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted… The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees. ~ Ronald Reagan
Ethanol has reduced our nation’s dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans. ~ Lane Evans
Transportation is responsible for half of our state’s air pollution, and many suffer as a result. Children are more likely to develop respiratory illnesses and struggle in school when they breathe smoggy air. ~ Alex Padilla.
Top Air Pollution Quotes
For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children’s children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated. ~ Peter Matthiessen
The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city’s population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses. ~ James Frey
In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. ~ Bjorn Lomborg
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures. ~ Barry Commoner
I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. … Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn’t say 80 percent. I said 92 percent-93 percent, pardon me. And I didn’t say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. … If we are totally successful and can eliminate all the manmade oxides of nitrogen, we’ll still have 93 percent as much as we have in the air today. ~ Ronald Reagan
Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral values, and so on. As a result, many other concerns have come to the fore: peace, contentment, ecology, justice, tolerance, and dialogue. Unfortunately, despite certain promising precautions, those who should be tackling these problems tend to do so by seeking further ways to conquer and control nature and produce more lethal weapons. ~ Fethullah Gulen
Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against. Barry Gardiner We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution. ~ Arvind Kejriwal
I strongly support the Bush Administration’s clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent. ~ Steve Buyer
If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don’t last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste. ~ Tom Lehrer
I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly in the day, there was air pollution and light pollution, and you look up, and your sight line terminates on buildings. You know the sun and maybe the moon, and that’s about it. So what happens is that I am exposed to the night sky as you would see it from a mountaintop, and I’m just struck by it. Suppose I grew up on a farm where I had that sky every night of my life – then you’re not going to be struck by it. It’s just the wallpaper of your nighttime dome. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
It’s perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology. ~ Carl Sagan
As a society, almost one 1 of 2 adults has a chronic disease of one form or another. And where we’re spending $3 trillion a year not on a healthcare system, but on a sick-care system that tries to patch us up after we’ve been made ill by a variety of institutional things around us – including a sick food system, air pollution, etc. Where we could be doing so much better even before people get to the point of getting sick. ~ Jill Stein
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. ~ Ronald Reagan
Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms. ~ Sharon Gannon.
You take for example the environmental movement is a big deal in my district. You know, you might say, yeah, more African Americans are suffering from asthma and air pollution-related illnesses, but there`s a lot of white folks, a lot of white kids with inhalers. So, you just got to talk to the reality of everyone, not exclude anyone. And make sure that people know that you care about them too. I think if you do that, we can get there. ~ Keith Ellison.
Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs. ~ Julianne Moore.
Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. ~ Lester R. Brown.
