Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As Governor of Colorado, I will continue to transition our state away from fossil fuels to more clean, renewable sources of energy. — Cary Kennedy Copy Share Image
Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
There is nothing efficient about destroying the planet as we know it because vested interests want to keep us addicted to fossil… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
We must transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuels toward renewable sources of energy for the sake of our economy and our… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“the former because national-security priorities had shifted (no longer did we fear a Soviet attack from the north), the latter because economic… — McKenzie Funk Copy Share Image
Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
“Why are so many people afraid that we are running out of energy? Why do they warn of disaster if we exhaust… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Solar and wind are now cheaper in many places than some fossil fuels and within the next two years, three, four, five… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Our crumbling infrastructure disproportionately harms Black, brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities. The negative health impacts arising from fossil fuel use, industrial pollution,… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Why would we build as unequal a renewable energy sector as we have built a fossil fuel sector? The nice thing about… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the… — London Breed Copy Share Image
Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we… — Frances Beinecke Copy Share Image
Now that Europe has developed through deforestation and fossil fuel use it is telling Brazil not to develop through deforestation and fossil… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Tired of burning fossil fuel and polluting the planet? The moon is covered with helium 3, an isotope from the sun that… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels are raw materials that have to be extracted and processed. Wind and solar energy are different. The only costs associated… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
Fracking locks the U.K. into an industry that is based on fossil fuels long after our country needs to have moved to… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The amount of energy stored in all the fossil fuel on earth is negligible compared to the amount that the sun dispenses… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here… — Hermann Scheer Copy Share Image
Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy. — Hermann Scheer Copy Share Image
My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We've known for years that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we must work to end our reliance on fossil… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
