pollution quotes

Almost the whole pollution^environmental problem is summed up in the proposition that all goods are generally produced jointly with bads.

- Kenneth Ewart Boulding
  In Sam H Schurr (ed) Energy, Economic Growth, and the Environment (1972).

Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

- Ivan Illich
  Celebration of  Awareness, ch.12.

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
  Of the night sky in Nepal. The Snow Leopard,'Northward, October18'.