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
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
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
Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here… — Hermann Scheer 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
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
If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“When we burn fossil fuel for energy we are, in qualitative terms, doing nothing more wrong than burning wood. Our wrongdoing, if… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“Since about 1850, twice as much atmospheric carbon dioxide has derived from farming practices as from the burning of fossil fuels (the… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality.… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The thinning of the ozone layer is blamed on logging of tropical forests. The fact that the burning of fossil fuels and… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
“In mechanical terms, humans are quite efficient converters of food into energy, so human slaves were often more valuable than animal slaves,… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Professor J. B. S. Haldane was one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. A pioneering and broad-ranging thinker, he developed a… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If the world were to stay within the range of carbon emissions that scientists deemed reasonable in order for atmospheric temperatures to… — Jane Mayer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 amount of energy stored in all the fossil fuel on earth is negligible compared to the amount that the sun dispenses… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns,… — Margaret Atwood 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
The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil… — Al Gore 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
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
