Fossil Fuel Quotes - Page 2

• Necesitamos una revolución energética rompiendo nuestra dependencia de los combustibles fósiles, contaminantes... Estoy muy, muy seguro de que nuestro pequeño Estado liderará esto. El país y el mundo se fijarán en nosotros.

  Bernie Sanders

  País, Energía, Necesidades

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Sin embargo, a pesar de nuestros muchos avances, nuestro medio ambiente sigue amenazado por una serie de problemas, como el cambio climático global, la dependencia energética de combustibles fósiles insostenibles y la pérdida de biodiversidad.

  Dan Lipinski

  Loss, 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, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• Además de contribuir a la erosión, la contaminación, la intoxicación alimentaria y la zona muerta, el maíz requiere enormes cantidades de combustible fósil: se necesita medio galón de combustible fósil para producir una fanega de maíz.

  Michael Pollan

  Alimentación, erosión, combustible

  "Cadenas alimentarias, zonas muertas y periodismo de licencia". Entrevista con Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. 4 de febrero de 2005.

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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, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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• En realidad, los republicanos llevan mucho tiempo en guerra contra las energías limpias. Han ridiculizado las inversiones en energía solar y eólica, han criticado las normas de eficiencia energética, han atacado las medidas estatales de fomento de las energías renovables y han defendido leyes que consagrarían las subvenciones de los contribuyentes a los combustibles fósiles y las retirarían de la energía eólica y solar.

  Jeff Goodell

  Guerra, Movimiento, Realidad

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• I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.

  Josh Fox

  Thinking, Energy, Transition

  "Sundance ’10 | “GASLAND” Director Josh Fox on Being a One Man Crew". www.indiewire.com. January 22, 2010.

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

  Lincoln Díaz-Balart

  Aggravation, Priorities, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Moon, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). "La creación del marcapasos: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention"

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

  Nancy Pelosi

  Believe, Alternatives, Fuel

  "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. August 24, 2008.

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• The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.

  Al Gore

  Civilization, Prosperous Future, Healthy

  "Climate change report: 'The worst is yet to come' - as it happened" by Helen Davidson, Adam Vaughan, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade.

  Al Gore

  People, Chance, Assuming

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

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• Remember that the problem is bigger than the car you drive or the types of lightbulbs in city hall. We need a fundamental shift away from dirty fossil fuels that spew carbon pollution. To make that happen, we need to put pressure on our leaders to take the bold actions necessary to move us off dirty sources of energy.

  Al Gore

  Dirty, Moving, Cities

  "Al Gore | La verdad más importante. El poder de tu propia voz". Entrevista con Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Going Out, Burning, Fuel

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• Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Impact, Water

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• People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.

  Satish Kumar

  Moving, Wind, People

  "Entrevista con Satish Kumar en la New Story Summit". Entrevista Kosmos, www.kosmosjournal.org. 18 de noviembre de 2014.

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

  Sylvia Earle

  Energy, Fuel, Fossils

  "Su Majestad de las profundidades marinas: Entrevista con la Dra. Sylvia Earle, primera parte". Entrevista con Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. 23 de enero de 2013.

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• The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century.

  David Goodstein

  Running, Oil, Fuel

  David Goodstein (2005). “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Uncles, Oil, Energy

  Gerald R. Ford's speech as Vice President to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in West Palm Beach, Florida, January 26, 1974.

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• El agotamiento progresivo de la capa de ozono y el consiguiente "efecto invernadero" han alcanzado proporciones de crisis como consecuencia del crecimiento industrial, las concentraciones urbanas masivas y el enorme aumento de las necesidades energéticas. Los residuos industriales, la quema de combustibles fósiles, la deforestación sin restricciones, el uso de ciertos tipos de herbicidas, refrigerantes y propulsores: todos ellos son conocidos por sus efectos nocivos para la atmósfera y el medio ambiente.

  Pope John Paul II

  Ozone Layer, Growth, Atmosphere

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• 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.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Oil, Promise

  "Obama's oil flimflam". jewishworldreview.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Ahora estamos reduciendo, de forma apreciable, la disponibilidad de estos bienes vitales que podemos considerar (aunque sólo en condiciones de buena salud y buenos cuidados) autorrenovables o "sostenibles". También estamos destruyendo rápidamente las reservas de combustibles fósiles, que son limitadas y no renovables, y de las que nos hemos hecho totalmente dependientes.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Self, Availability

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.146, Counterpoint Press

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• Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

  Burt Rutan

  Reality, Years, Ideas

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• The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

  Henry Rollins

  Reality, Water, Facts

  Entrevista con Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. 1 de octubre de 2011.

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• Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to them that we are willing to live lives which are less dependent on fossil fuels and we'll show you that now by changing our individual life to some extent but we want you to take action, political leaders, so that we aren't living in a society in which we're dependent on poisoning the future in order to maintain present lifestyles.

  Dale Jamieson

  Live Life, People, Leader

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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