Air Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

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 have used the majority of our carbon budget and we are already at dangerous levels of CO2 concentrations, about 400 parts per million.…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

We have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on…

— Jeff Goodell

Economy is looking bad, let's start another war.

— Dead Kennedys

I think, in the long run, we have to wean ourselves from a carbon-based economy. We absolutely have to.

— John F. Kerry

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

We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways…

— Ramez Naam

“f we view climate changes as our enemy we will always be defeated, for climate will always change. Natural climate change is frequent, often…

— E. Kirsten Peters

We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and…

— Martin O'Malley

Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from…

— Bill McKibben

You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine…

— Elizabeth Kolbert