For as long as we're using fossil fuels at all, globally, Canadians should be using Canadian sources. — Elizabeth May 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
“Worshipping God is like mining for fossil fuels,” someone argued. “Plenty of smart people know it is shortsighted, and yet they have… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“the global bonfire of fossil fuels will heighten the likelihood of pandemics on its own, in a way that is likely to… — Sonia Shah Copy Share Image
The hardest problem of all is to appreciate the facts that the poor nations are - quite reasonably - not going to… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 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
All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put… — Paul R. Ehrlich 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
We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Every candidate running for president has got to answer the following very simple question: At a time when we need to address… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
“A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would alter the climate.… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the… — Vandana Shiva 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
“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
“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
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent… — David Suzuki 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
“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels.… — Bjorn Lomborg 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
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
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
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
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
We have to be reminded that we still live in a world that relies a lot on fossil fuels, and that transition… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people doing good work, but we need to get the burning of fossil fuels off the highways… — John B. Goodenough Copy Share Image