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
Why would we build as unequal a renewable energy sector as we have built a fossil fuel sector? The nice thing about… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my… — Anohni Copy Share Image
While we've doubled renewable energy, it was only a tiny portion of the energy portfolio to start with. But what we did… — Jill Stein 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
“For decades, the environmental movement had enjoyed bipartisan support. As public opinion mounted in favor of climate action, however, the fossil fuel… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in… — Charles Krauthammer 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
There is nothing efficient about destroying the planet as we know it because vested interests want to keep us addicted to fossil… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
We must transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuels toward renewable sources of energy for the sake of our economy and our… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Many are outspoken about the climate crisis, but conveniently ignore the fact that support for fossil fuels is not just incompatible with… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be… — Stephen Heintz 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
We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world. — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has… — John Olver Copy Share Image
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I want these lefties to get called out as immoral basically to reduce the standard of living for every American by trying… — Dagen McDowell Copy Share Image
If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans… — Anonymous 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 all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes 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
“If the stress resulting from trying to resist change could be transformed into energy, we wouldn’t have to worry about coming up… — Robert Gerrish Copy Share Image
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