Fresh water is like a fossil fuel; we should not waste it.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

— Avi Lewis

Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and…

— Maurice Strong

I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We…

— Sheryl Crow

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 captives.

— John M. McHugh

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a…

— James Lovelock

The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of…

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of…

— Jeff Goodell

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy…

— Lee R. Raymond

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to…

— Bill McKibben

You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil…

— David Goodstein

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

— Michael Pollan

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

— David Goodstein

I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to…

— Bill McKibben

As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's…

— Joseph J. Romm