Fossil Quotes

226 Fossil quotes by 155 unique authors

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen
Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on… — Sigourney Weaver
CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these… — James Hansen
Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as… — George Monbiot
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing -… — Maurice Strong
...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively… — James Hansen
The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take… — William J. Clinton
CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human… — Unknown Author
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to… — Unknown Author
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that… — Carl Zimmer
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests… — David Suzuki
We have already used more than half of that budget. This means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the… — Christiana Figueres
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein
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

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