Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes About Pollution

• Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Thinking, Air, Water

• La agricultura industrial es ahora responsable de más de la mitad de la contaminación del agua en Estados Unidos. Hace dos años, los brotes de Pfiesteria relacionados con los desechos de las fábricas industriales de pollos obligaron a cerrar dos importantes afluentes del Chesapeake y amenazaron la vital industria marisquera de Maryland. Tyson Foods ha contaminado la mitad de los arroyos del noroeste de Arkansas con tantas bacterias fecales que está prohibido bañarse. Los medicamentos y hormonas necesarios para mantener vivos y en crecimiento a los animales confinados se excretan principalmente con los desechos y saturan las vías fluviales locales.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Swimming, Animal, Agriculture

• You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  People, Environmental, Cost

• There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Agency, Election Process

  Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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