So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. — Lincoln Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
Behind every morsel of bread, fruits, or meat is a large amount of transformed fossil fuels. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program. — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
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
We have to be reminded that we still live in a world that relies a lot on fossil fuels, and that transition… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more… — James Hansen 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
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
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
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
“One of the great ironies of climate change activism today is that many of the movement’s most vocal proponents are also horrified… — Bjorn Lomborg 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
We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from… — Andrew Simms Copy Share Image
“Emissions of carbon dioxide are largely by-products of productivity-- of industry, governments, and individuals producing things that we want more of (including… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
“Thermophilic composting requires no electricity and therefore no coal combustion, no acid rain, no nuclear power plants, no nuclear waste, no petrochemicals… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“In case after case, Fred Singer, Fred Seitz, and a handful of other scientists joined forces with think tanks and private corporations… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire… — Mike Bond 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
“Is it simply quixotic to hope to preserve human civilization from either the effects of burning fossil fuels or preparing for nuclear… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“The point is, you must show them how to live and not just teach them theory while contradicting yourself in practice, because… — Dmitry Orlov Copy Share Image
“To do so, we first have to learn to see it for what it is—by cutting through all of the buzzwords, the… — Dmitry Orlov Copy Share Image
“Suppose we humans are, as a species, exhibiting disease behavior: we’re multiplying with no regard for limits, consuming natural resources as if… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Crutzen wrote up his idea in a short essay, “Geology of Mankind,” that ran in Nature. “It seems appropriate to assign the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
