Climate Quote by Bill McKibben Download Open image “We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.” — Bill McKibben ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate Deals Feet Fossil fuel Fossils Fuel Fuel Industry Industry Industry Foot Like Fossil
We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We have taken on the fossil fuel companies, combating climate change and even the energy utilities. — Sara Gideon 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 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 Copy Share Image
We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its tentacles in… — Bill McKibben 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. All we… — Mark Ruffalo 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
Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly… — Sheldon Whitehouse 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
Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford… — Frances Beinecke 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