As we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide, much of which is absorbed by the oceans. — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress. — Ban Ki-moon 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
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama 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
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 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
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
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 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
If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have… — Ramez Naam 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
We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground.… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and… — Paul Johnson 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
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil… — John Coleman 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
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
“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
Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
“Climate Change. When we talk about our responsibilities as human beings and as parents, there is nothing more important than leaving this… — Bernie Sanders 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
Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single… — Michael Brune Copy Share Image
“We are fossil fuel addicts. What happens when drug addicts detox? They can be rash, cranky, even psychotic and dangerous. It would… — Russell Gold 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
We must transition away from the dirtiest fossil fuels toward renewable sources of energy for the sake of our economy and our… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
There is nothing efficient about destroying the planet as we know it because vested interests want to keep us addicted to fossil… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the… — London Breed Copy Share Image
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
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