Fossil Fuel Quotes - Page 10

• When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

  Bonnie Raitt

  California Coast, Oil, Issues

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• I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I`m committed to that. But I`m not going to just all of a sudden try to stop the cars of California or to increase dramatically the number of ships carrying oil into the state when we already have our own production.

  Jerry Brown

  Oil, California, Numbers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put a lot of effort into alternate energy technologies, but we're still subsidizing fossil fuels and not subsidizing most of the alternatives. It's not going to be an easy transition.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Mean, Technology, Effort

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Ocean, Storm

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• I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Locks, Fuel, Pipeline

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• 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.

  Frances Beinecke

  Moving, Fighting, Fate

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• 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 fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil.

  Lester R. Brown

  Light, Oil, Environmental

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• The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or older folks dealing with heart and lung disease from the pollutions created by the burning of these fossil fuels, may not be reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, but that does not mean we aren't paying a high price for them.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Children, Heart, Mean

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• It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Years, People, Dying

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• We need to reject not only outdated fossil-fuel technology, but also an outdated economic system and an outdated corporatist political system. The progressive view is that we are smart enough and ethical enough to not have to be subservient to corporations. We can create our own resilient, localized communities.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Smart, Technology, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The choice before us is simple. Will we continue to subsidize the dirty fossil fuels of the past, or will we transition to 21st century clean, renewable energy?

  Elizabeth Warren

  Dirty, Past, Simple

  "Energy & The Environment". elizabethwarren.com.

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• It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it is not concerned. It is a collection of gases.

  George Monbiot

  Atmosphere, Fossils, Doe

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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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• Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.

  Chris Paine

  Thinking, Oil, Car

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground. All we need is for you to join the rest of the world to bring about a cleaner, more stable, and peaceful future.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Peaceful, Needs, News

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• While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro).

  John B. Quigley

  Moving, Ambition, Mean

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• So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

  Avi Lewis

  People, Fossils, Fuel

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We shouldn't have stupid cars that use liquid fossil fuels. Come on, how outmoded is that? We have to get to the point where this is no longer a part of our experience.

  Christiana Figueres

  Stupid, Car, Use

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Wind, America, Energy

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings.

  Jill Stein

  Saving, Cost, Half

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• To restore our inflamed atmosphere to a hospitable state requires nothing less than rewiring the entire globe - and replace every oil-burning furnace, every gasoline-burning car, every coal-burning generating plant, with renewable, climate-friendly energy sources. The earth's fossil fuel resources have blessed us with a level of prosperity and abundance unimaginable a century ago. Today they are propelling us forward into a century of disintegration.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Blessed, Oil, Car

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• I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.

  John Lindsay

  Way, Fossils, Energy

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.

  John Lindsay

  Joy, Tunes, Alternatives

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides health care as a human right, if we still cannot, you know, ban fracking and fossil fuels and move like our lives depend on it - you know, we say in the next 15 years we need to phase out fossil fuels.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Moving, Cutting

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Growth, Energy, Climate

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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