Climate Quote by Lev Grossman

“Oil. The great addiction of the civilized world”

— Andrew Warren

“But I guess oil was to be found in every part of the world, just like anger and sorrow.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“the New World had become the oil granary for the Old; altogether, the United States was to satisfy 80 percent of the Allies’ wartime…

— Daniel Yergin

“Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.”

— James J Freeland

“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 poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.”

— Sebastian Japrisot

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“the world produces more than enough food for all of us to thrive.”

— Francis Lappe

“Aluminium’s sixty-year reign as the world’s most precious substance was glorious, but soon an American chemist ruined everything.”

— Sam Kean

“Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: "The production of petroleum has now…

— Jane Brox

“Strange, strange are the dynamics of oil and the ways of oilmen.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“The oil business, as Erickson understood it, was and had always been amoral.”

— Stephan Talty