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George Monbiot has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and…
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...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and…
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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…
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Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating…
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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest…
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When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be…
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The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million…
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if…
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Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
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If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity…
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The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights,…
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The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are…
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— William J. Clinton
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