Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads... and with coal-burning utilities... Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. More Quotes by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. More Quotes From Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. escaping quality discipline Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in trust for future generations. Corporations cannot act philanthropically in America. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. land air america The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. assets democracy land GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. vegetarian pay years It is more important to be of service than successful. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. important successful success 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. environmental cost people Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. agriculture swimming animal Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. global-warming united-states democracy Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. giving war children Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exit. They are contemptible human beings. I wish there were a law you could punish them with. I don’t think there is a law that you can punish those politicians under. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. brother law thinking The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. meat-industry land animal We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. air kids children The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist. You send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them that you're not going to buy their products anymore. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. toady email lying We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. environment sake bird
