Fossil Fuels Quotes
99 quotes by 73 authors
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Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever…
— Jimmy Carter
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing…
— Barack Obama
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Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
— David Goodstein
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I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't…
— Sheryl Crow
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The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.
— Denis Hayes
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If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines,…
— Robert Redford
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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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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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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…
— Jonathan Duhamel
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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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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 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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