I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress. — Ban Ki-moon 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 world around us is a beautiful, supportive environment for human growth and flourishing. Isn't it amazing how everything we need to… — Carla Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the things that we have to realize is we cannot get off gas, we cannot get off oil, fossil fuels… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it's princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because we have run out… — Russell Gold 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
Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
“Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making… — Alfred W. Crosby 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
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. There is no… — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that… — Naomi Klein 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
Sure, you can say nuclear power is somewhat less carbon-intensive than burning fossil fuels for energy; beating your children to death with… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“There is, however, another issue pressing its way into the system that brings a new urgency to the inevitable task of reforming… — Gretchen Bakke 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
Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
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