We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide, much of which is absorbed by the oceans. — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
To reduce the risk of a global environmental catastrophe, and to avoid reversing the course of human progress, the world must urgently… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
If we're serious about our kids having a livable world, building fossil fuel infrastructure in 2018 is a sign of deep negligence,… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Nations around the world - including Canada - are working to shift the global economy from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy.… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Remember that the problem is bigger than the car you drive or the types of lightbulbs in city hall. We need a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The conniving, rich oilmen that were so desperate to prevent and frustrate the Paris Agreement found cheerleaders in Mr. Trump and his… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
This is very dangerous for us, as a society, and I think people deserve a politics of integrity that is not bought… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“For us hunting wasn’t a sport. It was a way to be intimate with nature, that intimacy providing us with wild unprocessed… — Ted Kerasote Copy Share Image
I know we need more nuclear power in order - nuclear power, after all, is not dependent on fossil fuels and emits… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Let me say two things about the costs - one is that there are detailed studies that show this, this is what… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“Thermophilic composting requires no electricity and therefore no coal combustion, no acid rain, no nuclear power plants, no nuclear waste, no petrochemicals… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Truckers spend more than $50,000 per year on fuel costs alone. They are also getting clobbered by the EPA and other government… — Troy Bohlke Copy Share Image
Canada, at the moment, is going through a Lord of the Rings moment. Having been a lowly Hobbit with furry feet and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“One of the great ironies of climate change activism today is that many of the movement’s most vocal proponents are also horrified… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Crutzen wrote up his idea in a short essay, “Geology of Mankind,” that ran in Nature. “It seems appropriate to assign the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
“Suppose we humans are, as a species, exhibiting disease behavior: we’re multiplying with no regard for limits, consuming natural resources as if… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Is it simply quixotic to hope to preserve human civilization from either the effects of burning fossil fuels or preparing for nuclear… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Adding carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, to the atmosphere by, say, burning fossil fuels or leveling forests is, in the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“Environmental pollution is a regressive phenomenon, since the rich can find ways of insulating themselves from bad air, dirty water, loss of… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire… — Mike Bond Copy Share Image
![“Let me say two things about the costs - one is that there are detailed studies that show this, this is what some of the Stanford studies show, in fact, that we get so healthier, so much more healthy, when we eliminate fossil fuel pollution - 200,000 [fewer] premature deaths a year for example. And…” quote by Jill Stein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f6d/jill-stein-660_asthma_let-me-say-two-things-about-the-costs-on_2581726.jpg)
