We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide, much of which is absorbed by the oceans. — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
As investments and as an energy source, fossil fuels have nowhere to go but down. — London Breed Copy Share Image
If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I actually argue that renewables are worse than fossil fuels. It's a physical manifestation of lower power densities. More land, more materials,… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I want to see us move from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable economy - if not in my lifetime, then… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry has made advocating alternative energy sources a liberal/conservative thing, and an ideological battle, when it should really be… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people doing good work, but we need to get the burning of fossil fuels off the highways… — John B. Goodenough 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
The truth is Mr. Trump could simply sit in the Oval Office for four years like a potted plant, and that would… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Sure, you can say nuclear power is somewhat less carbon-intensive than burning fossil fuels for energy; beating your children to death with… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We only gain collectively by acting now. We gain by one day not having to pay a thing for fuel. We gain… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“the former because national-security priorities had shifted (no longer did we fear a Soviet attack from the north), the latter because economic… — McKenzie Funk Copy Share Image
Politicians can either keep listening to a small number of polluting fossil fuel companies, who're keen to profit from keeping us hooked… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Truckers spend more than $50,000 per year on fuel costs alone. They are also getting clobbered by the EPA and other government… — Troy Bohlke Copy Share Image
Let me say two things about the costs - one is that there are detailed studies that show this, this is what… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I know we need more nuclear power in order - nuclear power, after all, is not dependent on fossil fuels and emits… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Canada, at the moment, is going through a Lord of the Rings moment. Having been a lowly Hobbit with furry feet and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
“So, whether the aliens explore with chemistry or with radio waves, they might come to the same conclusion: a planet where there’s… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to burn the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s) — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. — Dennis Weaver Copy Share Image
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