We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. There is no… — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be a 'reducetarian.' I try to consume less and be aware of the decisions I'm making. Not just… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All… — Wilson Greatbatch Copy Share Image
The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“Virtually everyone in the world believes that climate change is real and is caused by human beings, except Republicans in the United… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I'm committed to that. But I'm not… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
In nature the only source of energy is from the sun. So in ecological systems everything comes from the sun through the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
The truth is Mr. Trump could simply sit in the Oval Office for four years like a potted plant, and that would… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
“the planet’s current vegetative cover captures around 3000 EJ of the sun’s energy. This photosynthetic capacity would appear to be sufficient to… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
“So why are we, any of us, still debating the reality of climate change? Why aren’t all of our political and business… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think the place maybe to watch with the greatest worry right at the moment, and to try to help the most,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
There's hundreds of groups involved in this organizing of Climate march. And they run the whole spectrum. It is going to be… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
“Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It is true that building a green economy will not be good for everyone's jobs. Notably, people working in the fossil fuel… — Robert Pollin Copy Share Image
Protectionist politicians cannot stand the notion of a fossil-fuel-rich America maintaining record levels of production through exports. — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
Keep Ukraine out of NATO, urge Putin to respect international boundaries and issue a credible threat: If Russia invades Ukraine, then the… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
This administration [of Barack Obama] has massively expanded fossil fuel extraction. So while they give lip service to it, they actually do… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels -… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
While the leading environmental alarmists burn fossil fuels like they're going out of style, the United States under President Trump has led… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image