You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
We have already used more than half of that budget. This means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
From my perspective, we must create an equitable path forward to energy independence, not only from foreign countries, but also independence from… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Climate change is real, and the fossil fuel industry is pouring tons and tons of money into campaign contributions. That's something to… — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We import a lot of oil, particularly to eastern Canada, from Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, a lot from the U.S. So if… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Of course methane is a fossil fuel, but as long as it is burned efficiently and fugitive emissions of methane gas are… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it's princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because we have run out… — Russell Gold Copy Share Image
While we've doubled renewable energy, it was only a tiny portion of the energy portfolio to start with. But what we did… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels—especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas—needs to be… — Raymond Barnett Copy Share Image
With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the things that we have to realize is we cannot get off gas, we cannot get off oil, fossil fuels… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
“We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We shouldn't have stupid cars that use liquid fossil fuels. Come on, how outmoded is that? We have to get to the… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
World leaders need to realize that the cost of transforming the global energy system is far less than coping with the consequences… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
“If the stress resulting from trying to resist change could be transformed into energy, we wouldn’t have to worry about coming up… — Robert Gerrish Copy Share Image
The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What's changed is that new, larger populations are now… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
“For decades, the environmental movement had enjoyed bipartisan support. As public opinion mounted in favor of climate action, however, the fossil fuel… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my… — Anohni Copy Share Image