Age Quote by Fatih Birol

We've known for years that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we must work to end our reliance on fossil fuels sooner…

— Alex Padilla

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

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

— Bill McKibben

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.

— London Breed

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

— Ban Ki-moon

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

— Barack Obama

Investing in more fossil fuel infrastructure will not strengthen our economy over the long-term, since the market is clearly indicating that clean energy sources…

— Tom Steyer

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

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous…

— Lindsey Graham

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