Fuel Quotes - Page 14

• We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources.

  Sylvia Earle

  Energy, Fossils, Source

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are driving not just the warming trend, not just the sea level rise that is a consequence of the warming trend that is melting polar ice and alpine ice, but also [ocean acidification].

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Ice, Sea

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• It is worth noting that virtually every alternative energy source we have - solar, wind, nuclear, and battery and fuel cell technologies for storage - resulted from public innovation and R&D, not private. The problem is that we haven't done enough of it, and we have done it inconsistently.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Technology, Cells, Wind

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual distinction in our time of being the only institutions left that can posit some goal other than accumulation for human existence. I think that's enormously important because it is that drive for consumption more than anything else that fuels the environmental devastation around us.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Goal, Community

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Political, Fossils

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Needs, Fossils

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don't want to be involved in this enterprise.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Want, Fossils

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

  Bill McKibben

  Energy, Fossils, Labor

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any minor progress. They have a sweetheart deal unlike any other business on Earth: they're allowed to dispose of their waste for free, to use the atmosphere as an open sewer. And they will do all they can to defend that special privilege.

  Bill McKibben

  Atmosphere, Special, Progress

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we'll try to push it forward.

  Bill McKibben

  Trying, Subsidies, Fossils

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Wind, Oil

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.

  Bill McKibben

  Fossils, More Money, Industry

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's equally important to figure out how we're going to free up the resources to let the developing world leapfrog the fossil fuel age. That's at least as mathematically important, and at least as morally crucial.

  Bill McKibben

  Home, Worry, Important

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

  Bill McKibben

  Feet, Fossils, Deals

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody's politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Needs, Movement

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Focusing on solutions fuels progress.

  Michelle Gielan

  Progress, Solutions

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• When someone comes to you to talk about a problem, if you move the conversation on to a discussion of potential solutions, you fuel their creative problem solving abilities on average by 20% - not to mention you make them feel better! You make them smarter and more empowered to tackle challenges.

  Michelle Gielan

  Moving, Feel Better, Average

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to unionize. We have two choices: to help them improve their lives, or to keep away so that their lives will be worse. Neither choice has any effect on use of fossil fuels. So radical organizers can both help them unionize and improve their lives, and convince them to find a different way to survive and work for ending the use of fossil fuels.

  Noam Chomsky

  Two, Choices, Trying

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. And it's entirely a rate problem at this point.

  Bill McKibben

  Wind, Want, Fossils

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own reasons for needing to get off fossil fuels fast.

  Bill McKibben

  School, Cities, World

  "Donald Trump Is a Disaster for the Earth on Every Single Level". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. November 11, 2016.

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• We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

  Samantha Power

  War, People, Abhorrent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What we put into the atmosphere in terms of burning fuel is unprecedented.

  Sylvia Earle

  Atmosphere, Burning, Term

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Real, Leaving

  "Trump's EPA Pick Softens Positions Amid Democratic Criticisms" by Jennifer A Dlouhy, www.bloomberg.com. January 19, 2017.

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• I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

  Frank Gehry

  Kids, Thinking, Fire

  Source: blog.americansforthearts.org

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• Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson

  Inspire, Listening To Music

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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