"Indeed, the quantity of PCBs still in use plus the quantity still languishing in waste dumps exceeds the total amount that has already escaped into the general environment. Without a program to recall and contain them, semivolatile PCBs will continue to insinuate themselves into the food chain for decades."

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Source : Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.136, Da Capo Press

Sandra Steingraber

#Environmental Quotes #Use Quotes #Waste Quotes

“The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.”
“My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the intellect, by favoring certain definitions of intelligence and wisdom, and by demanding a certain kind of content - in a phrase, by creating new forms of truth-telling.”
“Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.”
“I followed the war wherever I could reach it.”
“Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?”
“How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!”
“All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it”
“There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.”

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