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  • The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

    Use   Fuel   World  
  • I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

    "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. August 24, 2008.
  • I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

  • If we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, there is a real question as to the quality of the planet that we are going to be leaving our children and our grandchildren.

    Children   Real   Leaving  
    "Trump's EPA Pick Softens Positions Amid Democratic Criticisms" by Jennifer A Dlouhy, www.bloomberg.com. January 19, 2017.
  • We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

    Wind   Feet   Nuclear  
  • What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the failure to manage contraction. It requires a thoroughgoing reorganization of daily life. No political faction currently operating in the USA gets this. Hence, it is liable to be settled by a contest for dwindling resources and there are many ways in which this won't be pretty.

    Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.
  • Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

    Running   Moving   Wind  
  • I think one can see the [Donald] Trump program as if it were that element of the bailout of 2009 writ very large, and now extended out towards both fossil fuels, and, on the other hand, the infrastructure program, which is such a key element of the spending side of the Trump program.

    Thinking   Keys   Hands  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere. It is all a fiction.

  • We make movies about remarkable people like President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives in "The Island President" and Al Gore in the film, who get up every day and are driven in an almost inhuman way to make a change in a problem that they see in the world and shine truth into a very dark arena where bad actors try to lie to the American public to gain profits for fossil fuel companies. To us, that's a natural drama. And that's primarily where we work - character-based films that we hope will bring issues to life through their stories.

    Drama   Lying   Dark  
    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on a scale that has not occurred for tens of millions of years. So we confront an urgent choice: to move beyond fossil fuels or to risk turning the ocean into a sea of weeds.

    Weed   Moving   Ocean  
  • Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?

  • We have already used more than half of that budget. This means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground, and the fossil fuels we do use must be utilized sparingly and responsibly.

    Mean   Fossils   Three  
  • Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!

    Business   Ocean   Race  
    Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon
  • Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.

    Aquifers   Years   Water  
    "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.
  • In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

    Food   Erosion   Fuel  
    "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview With Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.
  • Canada, at the moment, is going through a Lord of the Rings moment. Having been a lowly Hobbit with furry feet and fun parties, with fireworks and beer, it has now been handed the Ring of Power: a large supply of fossil fuel, in the form of oil/tar sand and coal. Will it shrivel into an evil RingWraith? Will it become an addicted Golum? Will it refuse the Ring, like Galadriel, fearful of what So Much Power (in both senses of the word) will do to its inner being? Will it try to deal with the Ring responsibly, like Gandalf? Will it side with the Ents?

    Fun   Party   Beer  
    Source: www.marandapleasantmedia.com
  • Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.

    "Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target'" by Duncan Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.
  • In nature the only source of energy is from the sun. So in ecological systems everything comes from the sun through the process of photosynthesis whereas now in human built environment our source of energy is from fossil fuels, renewable, wood energy or hydro-energy but it is not from the sun. So until we are able to operate and run a human built environment by imitating photosynthesis it will be a long while before we can have a true eco-system.

    Running   Long   Fuel  
    Source: www.cnn.com
  • Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.

    Moving   Fighting   Fate  
  • We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

  • You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.

    Fuel   Fossils   Economic  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.

    Real   Oil   Promise  
    "Obama's oil flimflam". jewishworldreview.com. March 15, 2012.
  • We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

    Coal   Fuel   Fossils  
    "Virgin pledges $3bn to combat global warming" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2006.
  • To maintain our economic and national security, we must maximize all of our nation's energy resources, including renewable sources, alternative fuels, and fossil fuels, all in a way that balances economic development and protecting our environment.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

    Ocean   Fossils   Cost  
    "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.
  • Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.

  • Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

    "Institutions worth $2.6 trillion have now pulled investments out of fossil fuels" by Damian Carrington, Emma Howard, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2015.
  • I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste we already have and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options such as wind and solar.

    Mean   Wind   Ideas  
    "Learning the Truth about Coal and Nuclear Energy" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2007.
  • To look at the climate crisis alone - and in my view this is an election where we're not just deciding what kind of a world we will be but whether we will have a world or not, going forward. And the climate crisis, for one thing, you know, Hillary [Clinton] has not repudiated fracking by any means, nor fossil fuels.

    Mean   Views   Fossils  
    Source: www.politico.com
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