Woody Harrelson

Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us.

American Actor

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.

Barton Gellman

Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.

American Journalist

Yemi Osinbajo

Our vision is for a country that grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. It is for a country that no longer has to import petroleum products and develop a lucrative petrochemical industry.

Nigerian Politician

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Brazil does not want to become an exporter of crude oil. No. We want to be a country that exports oil byproducts - more gasoline, high-quality oil - and to strengthen the petrochemical industry.

Brazilian Politician

Craig Venter

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

American Scientist

Robert Higgs

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

American Economist

Roger Altman

Cheap natural gas is a big stimulus to petrochemical production and a meaningful one for all U.S. manufacturing.

American Businessman

Gene Green

I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops.

American Politician

Jack Herer

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

American Activist

Petrochemicals are central to industries like plastic manufacturing.

Industry Connection

While petrochemicals come from the same sources as fuels, their use is mainly in creating other products.

Not Always Fuel

Petrochemicals raise ecological issues due to their petroleum base.

Environmental Concerns

Petrochemicals are common in various industries, not just energy.

Widespread Usage

Petrochemicals are often produced in special industrial plants.

Production Process

The range of petrochemical products is vast, from solvents to explosives.

Product Spectrum

 global is production of meat and fish understanding how to produce protein in a way that's healthy for the environment and healthy for people will be incredibly important to address things like climate change and and you know how we use petrochemical fertilizers and you know these are really relevant topics that are long-term and important for

Obesity + Hunger = 1...

 And there are many adults as well, literally millions around the world, and in some industries, they actually account for the fact that, for example, we don't see a lot of metal waste in the world. That's exactly right. That little girl is, in fact, the hero of the environment. She's in competition with a great big petrochemical plant

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 that we need the food and we need the shelter and so on, but we have very, very different constraints of this upmass problem and the reliability and the flexibility and so on. But because we have these constraints that you don't have here, where you might have to think about the indigenous petrochemical industry, or whatever,

The living tech we need...

 and beef up local power grids to handle the influx of electricity demand. Still, electrification won't work everywhere. It may not be possible to use electricity to power some heavy industrial processes in the fast-growing steel, cement, fertilizer and petrochemical sectors. Plants may need to add equipment

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 Another thing that's become incredibly global is production of meat and fish. Understanding how to produce protein in a way that's healthy for the environment and healthy for people will be incredibly important to address things like climate change and how we use petrochemical fertilizers.

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 This is a remote operated vehicle beneath the ocean. And they use light to illuminate space down there. And this light can be used to transmit wireless data that these things to communicate with each other. Intrinsically safe environments like this petrochemical plant --

Wireless data from every...

 was actually built over two earthquake faults. And these faults would release these petrochemical fumes from underneath the Earth's crust, and the oracle literally sat right above these faults, inhaling enormous amounts of ethylene gas, these fissures. It's true.

The human insights...

 than our best chemists can produce. I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

Craig Venter: A voyage...

 It's a continuum of petrochemical and plastics manufacturing facilities on acres of former plantations. Now, these facilities have created an intergenerational history of death from cancer,

How to Build an...

 in terms of Industry there's been asbestos here explosives the petrochemical industry obviously up at Curtin with the oil refineries there this is in many senses a toxic place