Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. — Dennis Weaver 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
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
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
“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
Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put… — Paul R. Ehrlich 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Acidisation isn't benign - like fracking, it can pose risks to groundwater sources, and runs counter to the urgency with which we… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has… — John Olver Copy Share Image
