Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
“If the stress resulting from trying to resist change could be transformed into energy, we wouldn’t have to worry about coming up… — Robert Gerrish Copy Share Image
The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What's changed is that new, larger populations are now… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
World leaders need to realize that the cost of transforming the global energy system is far less than coping with the consequences… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels—especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas—needs to be… — Raymond Barnett Copy Share Image
Climate change is real, and the fossil fuel industry is pouring tons and tons of money into campaign contributions. That's something to… — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
“A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Remember that the problem is bigger than the car you drive or the types of lightbulbs in city hall. We need a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The majority of America wants action on climate change. The majority of America thinks we should regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One of the things that we have to realize is we cannot get off gas, we cannot get off oil, fossil fuels… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We clearly have to reduce harmful energy emissions. Everyone acknowledges we simply can't switch off fossil fuels overnight. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We need to invest in home-grown clean energy that will bring cheaper prices in the long run, shielding consumers from volatile international… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
Many are outspoken about the climate crisis, but conveniently ignore the fact that support for fossil fuels is not just incompatible with… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Investing in more fossil fuel infrastructure will not strengthen our economy over the long-term, since the market is clearly indicating that clean… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
As Governor of Colorado, I will continue to transition our state away from fossil fuels to more clean, renewable sources of energy. — Cary Kennedy Copy Share Image
Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want these lefties to get called out as immoral basically to reduce the standard of living for every American by trying… — Dagen McDowell Copy Share Image
