Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
This administration [of Barack Obama] has massively expanded fossil fuel extraction. So while they give lip service to it, they actually do… — Jill Stein 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
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
Acidisation isn't benign - like fracking, it can pose risks to groundwater sources, and runs counter to the urgency with which we… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“the planet’s current vegetative cover captures around 3000 EJ of the sun’s energy. This photosynthetic capacity would appear to be sufficient to… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest… — David R. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr 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
The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We import a lot of oil, particularly to eastern Canada, from Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, a lot from the U.S. So if… — Elizabeth May 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
From Portland's ban on large, fossil fuel terminals to Oregon's Clean Fuels Standard and the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Act, our… — Ted Wheeler 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Investing in more fossil fuel infrastructure will not strengthen our economy over the long-term, since the market is clearly indicating that clean… — Tom Steyer 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
The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're… — Naomi Klein 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
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
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels. — James Hansen 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