23 Fossil Fuel Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 Prayer Song Dance Energy Neither Does Up Artificial Any Burn Fuel Use Fossil Fossil Fuel

My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort. Anohni

Nature Relationship Reality Vision Behavior Addict Would Degrees Minute Perceive Give Voice Could Taking Idea Ideal Comfort How Articulate Wanted Fuel Planes If I Could Fossil Fossil Fuel Enjoying

The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love. Billy Parish

Love Our Everything Our Planet Destroying Industry Fuel Planet Fossil Fossil Fuel

We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy. Carlo Rubbia

Time Long Long Time Energy Seem Only Date Economic Economic Policy Implementing New Policy Years Sources Get Short Rewards Short Time Energy Policy Fuel Energy Sources Fossil Fossil Fuel Aware

LNG is a fossil fuel. LNG is imported. David Ige

Imported Fuel Fossil Fossil Fuel

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. Douglas Rushkoff

Work Environmental History Drive Single Pleasant Progressive Toss Tossing Impact Bottle Takes Environmentally Like Envision Altogether Shirt Iron May Being Burned Fuel Plastic Fossil Fossil Fuel Trash Bin Actually Second

We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally. Fatih Birol

News Change Age Benefits Bad Only Bad News Economic Economic Benefits Unconditionally Look Also Climate Climate Change Greet Short-Term Fuel Fuels Should Fossil Fossil Fuel Therefore Fossil Fuels

We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire. Frances Beinecke

Future Communicate Better Fire Power Energy Setting Too Digging Our Ways Signals Stuck Better Ways Smoke Always Hand Than Gestures Fuel Ground Fossil Fossil Fuel Need

I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers. Jill Stein

War Long Group Giants Thrown Towel Since Parties Democratic Because Front Predatory Banks Republican Fuel Really Fossil Fossil Fuel

Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them. Josh Fox

Natural Rest Dirty Like Natural Gas Them Fuel Fossil Fossil Fuel Gas

Of course methane is a fossil fuel, but as long as it is burned efficiently and fugitive emissions of methane gas are minimised, it is a less harmful fossil fuel than coal and oil and is an important way-station on the global journey towards low-carbon energy. Mark Walport

I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast. Naomi Klein

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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement. Naomi Klein

Future Government Better Job Free Market Our Way Destroying Preventing Free Market Better Job Industry Yes Replacement Getting Them Fuel Planet Livable Fossil Fossil Fuel Actively Things Chances

Millions upon millions of secret spending by the fossil fuel industry that was unleashed by the disastrous 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision - this money not only fuels the campaigns of many candidates; it also represents a threat to those who don't toe the polluter line on climate change. Sheldon Whitehouse

Change Money Decision Secret Unleashed Spending Those Citizens Threat Only Disastrous Also Supreme Supreme Court Industry Court Court Decision Climate Climate Change Line Campaigns Candidates Represents Fuel Fuels Toe Who Fossil Many Fossil Fuel United Millions

To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the tobacco industry. We don't have enough information to make that conclusion. Perhaps it's all smoke and no fire. But there's an awful lot of smoke. Sheldon Whitehouse

Fire Enough Kind Allies Clear Perhaps Know Make Industry Smoke Conclusion Lot Same Information Whether Fuel Tobacco Engaged Fossil Fossil Fuel Activity Awful Awful Lot

As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR machine would concede that burning their product causes real harm to other people. Sheldon Whitehouse

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science. Sheldon Whitehouse

Science Architecture Control Others Attack Taken Powered Industry Built Methods Up Deny Fuel Tobacco Fossil Fossil Fuel Originally

As some of us can testify, the viciousness of the lobby groups funded by the fossil fuel industry, and the publications that amplify their message, knows no limits. As we have already seen, they treat even children as fair game. George Monbiot

Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate climate policy. Jagmeet Singh

Government Waiting Sidelines Table Industry Policy Partners Climate Dictate While Fuel Workers Should Communities Fossil Fossil Fuel

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