Fossil Quotes

226 quotes by 155 authors

We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are… — Alfred W. Crosby
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the… — Lester R. Brown
Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But… — Michael Brune
Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there… — Rajendra K. Pachauri
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return — Barack Obama
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of me as these… — Pat Robertson
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do… — Eldridge Cleaver
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free — Bill McKibben
The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth. — Unknown Author
Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they… — Ann Coulter
Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through… — Wallace Stegner
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching… — Desmond Tutu
We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels)… — Desmond Tutu
It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future — Desmond Tutu
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. — Dennis Weaver
Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says… — Rush Limbaugh
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels. — James Hansen

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