Baby Quote by Jared Diamond

Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

— Ed Rendell

Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil.

— Michael Shellenberger

Fossil fuels are raw materials that have to be extracted and processed. Wind and solar energy are different. The only costs associated with them…

— Tom Steyer

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About…

— T. Boone Pickens

Renewable energy is no longer a niche fuel.

— Fatih Birol

I actually argue that renewables are worse than fossil fuels. It's a physical manifestation of lower power densities. More land, more materials, more mining,…

— Michael Shellenberger

“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical…

— Carl Sagan

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

— Derrick Jensen

Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of…

— Tulsi Tanti

“If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're…

— Catherine Friend

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the…

— Janine Benyus

Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other…

— Lester R. Brown