Climate Quote by Bill McKibben Download Open image “I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.” — Bill McKibben ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate Fossil fuel Fossils Fuel Fuel Industry Industry Need Straight Needs Straight Fossil Think Need Thinking
We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program. — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
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 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 fuels is… — Al Gore 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 a lot… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet. — Sheldon Whitehouse 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 the will… — Mark Ruffalo 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 planet. — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The snow was coming down so hard. It looked like the flakes were hurrying to get out of the sky so the next ones… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“I’ve sat behind a microphone and listened for decades as Americans learned to stop talking with each other and start shouting instead. No discussions,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We're putting more carbon into the atmosphere than the atmosphere can absorb. And everybody told us when we started, coz we knew nothing when… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. — Rupert Murdoch 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 rise and… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
