Building Quote by Elizabeth May

Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and…

— Sharan Burrow

The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year…

— Desmond Tutu

Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that continue exploring…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of…

— Irwin Redlener

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy,…

— Kofi Annan

...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights…

— Andrew Revkin

We want our children to live in a world without the destructive power of a warming planet.

— Barack Obama

I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

— Bill McKibben

Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any minor progress.…

— Bill McKibben

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

— Ban Ki-moon

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

— David Goodstein

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once…

— Thomas Friedman