Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs… — Sylvia Earle 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
Tired of burning fossil fuel and polluting the planet? The moon is covered with helium 3, an isotope from the sun that… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels are raw materials that have to be extracted and processed. Wind and solar energy are different. The only costs associated… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Fracking locks the U.K. into an industry that is based on fossil fuels long after our country needs to have moved to… — Barry Gardiner 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
Of course methane is a fossil fuel, but as long as it is burned efficiently and fugitive emissions of methane gas are… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from… — Paul Watson 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
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
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
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We have already used more than half of that budget. This means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
From my perspective, we must create an equitable path forward to energy independence, not only from foreign countries, but also independence from… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy. — Hermann Scheer Copy Share Image
We've known for years that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we must work to end our reliance on fossil… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050… — Jose Angel Gurria 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
I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels—especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas—needs to be… — Raymond Barnett Copy Share Image
World leaders need to realize that the cost of transforming the global energy system is far less than coping with the consequences… — Johan Rockstrom 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
The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What's changed is that new, larger populations are now… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
“We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We shouldn't have stupid cars that use liquid fossil fuels. Come on, how outmoded is that? We have to get to the… — Christiana Figueres 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
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
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