Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“The tractor’s arrival had signaled, among other things, agriculture’s shift from an almost exclusive dependence on free solar energy to a total… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer. — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
We cannot sell out our public lands for destructive fossil fuel development that pollutes our air, water, and land. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
“the global bonfire of fossil fuels will heighten the likelihood of pandemics on its own, in a way that is likely to… — Sonia Shah Copy Share Image
The hardest problem of all is to appreciate the facts that the poor nations are - quite reasonably - not going to… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Worshipping God is like mining for fossil fuels,” someone argued. “Plenty of smart people know it is shortsighted, and yet they have… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say… — Michael Specter 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
“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
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
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
The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent… — Christopher Flavin 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
“Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership,… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels.… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It is true that building a green economy will not be good for everyone's jobs. Notably, people working in the fossil fuel… — Robert Pollin Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry maintains a science denial operation and a political influence operation designed to do just that. What's good for… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
We all know that we have to get off of fossil fuels. And we know that the world is going in that… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal,… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in… — Albert Wynn Copy Share Image
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest… — Alana Beard Copy Share Image
I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I have heard somewhere an argument that if the Industrial Revolution - economic development - had started in Africa rather than Europe,… — Emily Maitlis 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 was totally take the lid off fossil fuel extractions in every way imaginable. On the day following [Barack] Obama's trip to the Louisiana floods, you know, we had, I think…” quote by Jill Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cb/jill-stein-660_acres_while-we-ve-doubled-renewable-energy-it_811512.jpg)
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