Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
[Hillart Clinton] holds the illusion that we can make fossil fuel safe, and that they are safe, and she established an office… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
One problem is that we are heavily dependent upon fossil fuels. And that's where the greenhouse gases come from, by and large,… — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
It took me a bit to realize how big the changes have been in the last decade. In so many places -… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
As some of us can testify, the viciousness of the lobby groups funded by the fossil fuel industry, and the publications that… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
To look at the climate crisis alone - and in my view this is an election where we're not just deciding what… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
The burden of high energy costs is felt disproportionately by low-income and Black and brown families. Every person has the right to… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
“Put differently, the liberation of world markets, a process powered by the liberation of unprecedented amounts of fossil fuels from the earth,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“fossil fuels currently in the ground. His comments came in an interview that will air Monday as part of the final episode… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The U.K. government faces three choices to deal with carbon-heavy fossil fuels: force people to stop using them immediately; facilitate a rapid… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Nuclear is the only energy source that has proven capable of fully replacing fossil fuels at low-cost in wealthy nations. While hydro-electric… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
In the world of globalization, the fossil fuel masters of the universe who are digging up our boreal forest and our muskeg… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Tackling the issue of climate change presents us with an inflection point in human history - a climate justice revolution that separates… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Millions upon millions of secret spending by the fossil fuel industry that was unleashed by the disastrous 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The abundance that is offered to us by leaving behind the fossil fuel paradigm is very promising for the world and the… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage-- oop! --yes, but we have to purge the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground.… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us… — John Harte Copy Share Image
“the fossil fuel industry is an oligarchy.” Some might dispute that American oil, gas, and coal magnates met the dictionary definition of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“They will also tell you how far along we are along the depletion curve; the optimists among them will even claim that… — Dmitry Orlov Copy Share Image
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image