Century Quote by David Goodstein

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

— David Goodstein

The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is…

— Al Gore

There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.

— Michael Shellenberger

The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by…

— David Goodstein

We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have the will…

— Mark Ruffalo

We're going to get off fossil fuels, no question. We may not do it quickly enough to avoid some pain, and I'm quite worried…

— David Grinspoon

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the…

— Svante Arrhenius

No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on…

— George W. Bush

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

— Derrick Jensen

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

— Ban Ki-moon

We have to be reminded that we still live in a world that relies a lot on fossil fuels, and that transition to new…

— Patricia Espinosa

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

— James Hansen