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Fossil fuels are raw materials that have to be extracted and processed. Wind and solar energy are different. The only costs associated with them…

— Tom Steyer

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself…

— John Holdren

“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 coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

— Gloria Reuben

Our economic system treats environmental degradation as an externalitya cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our…

— Barry Commoner

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

— Barack Obama

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

— Jeff Goodell

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable…

— Wendell Berry

Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising…

— Tim Jackson

We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.

— Josh Fox

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

— Aaron Feuerstein

Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

— Phil Harding