Burning Fossil Fuels Quotes

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

David Suzuki

Running, Opportunity, Energy

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Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Amory Lovins

Fire, Healthy, Needs

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Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.

John Olver

Oil, Energy, Population

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I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

Paul Krugman

Technology, Thinking, Long

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I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

Lee R. Raymond

Country, Interesting, People

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The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

David Suzuki

Real, Fossils, Global Warming

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The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

Lindsey Graham

Fossils, Energy, Alternatives

"McCain Collects Alaskan Stories of Global Warming", www.foxnews.com. August 18, 2005.

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What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

James Hansen

Creating, Fossils, Different

"NASA's Chief Climate Scientist Stirs Controversy With Call for Civil Disobedience" by Joshua Rhett Miller, www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2009.

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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Margaret Mead

Love, Dance, Song

"Margaret Mead: A Life". Book by Jane Howard, 1984.

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There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

Lee R. Raymond

Thinking, Energy, Doe

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As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

John M. McHugh

Long, Fossils, Middle East

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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

Ted Turner

Moving, Energy, Dollars

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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.

Ted Turner

Running, Moving, Wind

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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.

Albert Wynn

Moving, Hydrogen Fuel, Cells

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We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

Bernie Sanders

Country, Energy, Needs

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

Dan Lipinski

Facts, Energy, World

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The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

John Olver

Atmosphere, Energy, Climate

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Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

David Suzuki

Simple, Energy, Benefits

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One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Aggravation, Priorities, Fossils

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If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

Dan Lipinski

Loss, Energy, Climate

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You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

Jack Herer

Burning, Fuel, Fossils

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The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.

Ban Ki-moon

Mean, Climate, Needs

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It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

James Hansen

Long, Energy, Burning

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

Janine Benyus

Want, Fossils, Truth Is

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