Fossil Fuels Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world. — Denis Hayes
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
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
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
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
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… — Jonathan Duhamel
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
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 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

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