“Facebook is to mental health, what fossil fuel is to climate health.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter. — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have… — John Christy Copy Share Image
The great thing about cheap natural gas, again it's cheap, and it provides a cleaner alternative to coal. But it's still a… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through … a steady increase in carbon dioxide from… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We're going to get off fossil fuels, no question. We may not do it quickly enough to avoid some pain, and I'm… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Decarbonization has already begun, and the appeal of a fossil-fuel-free world is growing - not only because it would limit climate change,… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually… — Michael Moore 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
“A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have… — Mark Ruffalo 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
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The world around us is a beautiful, supportive environment for human growth and flourishing. Isn't it amazing how everything we need to… — Carla Johnson Copy Share Image
“And my car back then, a Studebaker as I recall, was powered, as are most of all means of transportation and other… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In West Virginia, we've been extracting coal longer than anyone else. And after one hundred and fifty years of making other people… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions.… — Jonathan Duhamel Copy Share Image
Even if I had money to invest I wouldn't invest it in oil companies - - or their bankers, suppliers, customers ...… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“We should be innovating tomorrow’s technologies rather than erecting today’s inefficient turbines and solar panels. We should explore fusion, fission, water splitting,… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whenever the media asked me how much I have received in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, my unapologetic answer was,… — Jim Inhofe Copy Share Image
I have heard somewhere an argument that if the Industrial Revolution - economic development - had started in Africa rather than Europe,… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very,… — Bill Nye 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
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different… — James Hansen 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
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
No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
