Becoming Quote by Barack Obama

I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I'm committed to that. But I'm not going to…

— Jerry Brown

By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on…

— Jeff Goodell

Science tells us we need to keep the majority of fossil fuels in the ground, and that we must urgently invest in renewable energy,…

— Barry Gardiner

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

— Barack Obama

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

— James Hansen

We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally,…

— Alice Roberts

Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ...…

— Al Gore

The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in…

— Robert Pollin

We have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

We've known for years that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we must work to end our reliance on fossil fuels sooner…

— Alex Padilla

We clearly have to reduce harmful energy emissions. Everyone acknowledges we simply can't switch off fossil fuels overnight.

— Mark Walport

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and…

— Elon Musk