Carbon Quotes · Page 3

“Climate Change is the politicization of science”

— Gun Gun Febrianza

I love being a carbon molecule.

— Duncan Trussell

Carbon made only wants to be unmade.

— Tori Amos

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

I know about trees. I know about how they eat all the carbon.

— Jim Justice

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

— Elon Musk

“We are stardust Billion-year old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”

— Joni Mitchell

All vinyl polymers may be regarded as built from monomeric units containing a tertiary carbon atom.

— Giulio Natta

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax.

— Tony Abbott

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

— John Doerr

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle.

— Michele Bachmann

It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.

— Craig Benzine

As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate…

— Wayne Swan

“What do I and a diamond have in common? We are tough, brilliant, and carbon based entities which evolved into something better…

— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

The push by some to eliminate natural meat is based on the fact that raising livestock is considered unsustainable and requires large…

— Leslyn Lewis

You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which…

— Joe Biden

[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a…

— John Christy

Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we…

— Annalee Newitz

We must act to reduce the increasingly dangerous and destructive levels of carbon pollution that account for practically all of global climate…

— Ted Lieu

President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he…

— Dan Rather

I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a…

— Immortal Technique

Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut…

— Katharine Hayhoe

Climate change is a crucial issue in todays global agenda. Hopefully, we will wake up to this reality, sooner rather than later.…

— Joseph Muscat

“Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our…

— Carl Sagan

We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling…

— Deepak Chopra

We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone…

— John Guillebaud

Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals…

— Michael Myers

There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists…

— Thomas Berry

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at…

— Joseph Priestley

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one…

— Thomas A. Edison

“About half today’s production cost is for precursor material—96% of which is polyacrylonitrile made from oil (propylene) or natural gas (propane), both…

— Amory Lovins

But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of…

— Michael Pollan

An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further…

— Mark Lynas

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

— Mark Ruffalo

...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

— Rainbow Rowell

So, if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

— John Shimkus

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

— Dasha Zhukova