Fossil fuel Quotes

As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.

— Amber Valletta

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

— Mark Ruffalo

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

— Bill McKibben

Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs.

— Piyush Goyal

Renewable energy is not unaffordable as the fossil fuel giants would like us to believe.

— Caroline Lucas

Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.

— William H. Calvin

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

— Alexandra Paul

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.

— Bernie Sanders

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental…

— David Suzuki

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy…

— Amory Lovins

I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that…

— Naomi Klein

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health…

— Jeff Goodell

As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some…

— Elizabeth Warren

“Americans put almost as much fossil fuel into our refrigerators as our cars. We're consuming about 400 gallons of oil per year…

— Steven L. Hopp

Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's…

— Bill McKibben

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

We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from…

— Paul Watson

Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil…

— Annie Leonard

“Why are so many people afraid that we are running out of energy? Why do they warn of disaster if we exhaust…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Of course methane is a fossil fuel, but as long as it is burned efficiently and fugitive emissions of methane gas are…

— Mark Walport

“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this…

— Michael Pollan

Our crumbling infrastructure disproportionately harms Black, brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities. The negative health impacts arising from fossil fuel use, industrial pollution,…

— Jamaal Bowman

Solar and wind are now cheaper in many places than some fossil fuels and within the next two years, three, four, five…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single…

— Michael Brune

I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring…

— Hyman Rickover

“Climate Change. When we talk about our responsibilities as human beings and as parents, there is nothing more important than leaving this…

— Bernie Sanders

“Shortly after Bush took office, a government scientist prepared testimony for a Congressional committee on the dangerous effects of industrial uses of…

— Howard Zinn

Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we…

— Don Cheadle

“by 2008 the arithmetic of climate change presented an almost unimaginable challenge. If the world were to stay within the range of…

— Jane Mayer

“So we now know the formula for extinction. Something happens to increase global temperatures five to six degrees, which triggers a melting…

— Thom Hartmann

Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to…

— Dale Jamieson

“But these assumptions could not accomplish much on their own. What gave them power, and made them able finally to dominate and…

— Wendell Berry

“Some of the world’s biggest banks and investor groups have swung behind a pledge to raise $200bn by the end of next…

— Anonymous

“One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can…

— Wendell Berry

“The principal energy sources of our present industrial civilization are the so-called fossil fuels. We burn wood and oil, coal and natural…

— Carl Sagan

“As far as food is concerned, the great extravagance is not caviar or truffles, but beef, pork and poultry. Some 38 percent…

— Peter Singer

“Global warming is a warning…. Mother earth is faltering due to global warming Today man –made chemicals causing ozone depletion Thousands of…

— Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka

“Adding carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, to the atmosphere by, say, burning fossil fuels or leveling forests is, in the…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Environmental pollution is a regressive phenomenon, since the rich can find ways of insulating themselves from bad air, dirty water, loss of…

— Guy Standing