Energy Quote by Barry Gardiner

“… what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma, when it…

— Mark Hertsgaard

The policies being promoted are insane... If you believe energy poverty is a good thing, you should support controls on carbon emissions. But most…

— Myron Ebell

The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly…

— Barack Obama

“The chief causes of the environmental destruction that faces us today are not biological, or the product of individual human choice. They are social…

— John Bellamy Foster

“In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

— Jim Yong Kim

“Over a large range of cases, environmental problems arise from our entirely reasonable habit of taking the benefits of our activities, while passing on…

— Roger Scruton

“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels. When everyone…

— Bjorn Lomborg

As long as energy is treated as a commodity, not a right, poor people, workers, and communities of color will suffer.

— Jamaal Bowman

“In our personal lives, we can seek to align our behavior with our values. We can live more simply, at once reducing environmental impacts,…

— John C. Ryan

“It is no coincidence that pollution so often accompanies poverty. Imagine a cost-benefit analysis of siting an undesirable facility, such as a landfill or…

— David Cay Johnston

“The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can’t worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half”

— Michael Crichton