Fossil Quotes
226 Fossil quotes by 155 unique authors
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Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.
— James Hansen
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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
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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
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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
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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
— David Goodstein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe
— Barack Obama
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
— Bill McKibben
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