Climate Quote by John McPhee

Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources of electricity.

— Stephen Moore

“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels. When everyone…

— Bjorn Lomborg

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

“Biomass, which basically is a fancy-sounding name for wood, is one of the old, reliable renewables that can produce energy when it is needed.…

— Bjorn Lomborg

How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to using natural…

— Milton Friedman

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to…

— John Olver

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

We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds…

— Josh Tickell

“When you visualized the future and conjured up a world where urban life had spread everywhere and man had achieved his long-desired symbiosis with…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took…

— Rex Tillerson

“I often imagine what our lives would be like without trees. We won't even dwell on the fact that our atmosphere would be sorely…

— Alain Baraton

“While industry and cars cause pollution, removing trees exacerbates the problem.”

— Rita Mae Brown