Fossil Fuel Quotes - Page 6

• The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Past, Long

  "Bill Clinton Announces $1B Fund for Renewable Energy", www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2006.

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• ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

  James Hansen

  Cancer, Smoking, Humanity

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• Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Turkeys, Leader

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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• Habíamos entrado en una era sin límites, o con la ilusión de no tenerlos, y esto en sí mismo es una especie de maravilla. Mi abuelo vivió una vida de límites, tanto sufridos como estrictamente observados, en un mundo de límites. Aprendí mucho de ese mundo de él y de otros, y luego cambié; entré en el mundo de las máquinas que ahorran trabajo y del combustible fósil barato e ilimitado. Me llevaría años de lectura, reflexión y experiencia volver a aprender que en este mundo los límites no sólo son ineludibles, sino indispensables.

  Wendell Berry

  Reading, Years, Grandfather

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.74, Counterpoint Press

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• The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

  George Monbiot

  Odio, Corazón, Hombres

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• Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable...

  Maurice Strong

  Eugenics, Air, Class

  "Agenda 21: The U.N.'s Earth Summit Has Its Head In The Clouds" by Larry Bell, www.forbes.com. June 14, 2011.

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• Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

  Alana Barba

  Tree, Soil, Fossils

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• These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. It is us - it is the affluent lifestyles that we lead that overwhelmingly contribute to this problem. And to call it a problem is to understate what it really is. Which is a crime. Crime against the poorest and most marginalized people on this planet. We've never figured out, though God knows we've tried, a more effective way to destroy their lives.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, People, Fuel

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• Nuestro insaciable apetito por los combustibles fósiles y el mandato empresarial de maximizar el valor para el accionista fomentan las perforaciones sin tener en cuenta los costes para el océano, incluso sin grandes vertidos.

  Sylvia Earle

  Océano, Fósiles, Coste

  "Sylvia Earle habla de los efectos del vertido de petróleo en el Golfo en una entrevista exclusiva". Entrevista con Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. 13 de enero de 2011.

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• I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.

  Tim Yeo

  Couple, Commitment, Cutting

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• Si hubiera que construir una central eléctrica, preferiría una nuclear a una de petróleo, y desde luego a una de carbón. Simplemente tenemos que reducir nuestro consumo de combustibles fósiles.

  James Lovelock

  Oil, Fuel, Fossils

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• 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

  Impact, Years, Iron

  "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now". Book by Douglas Rushkoff, www.wired.com. 2004.

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• Hoy, al aprovechar directamente la energía del Sol, estamos tomando la energía que Dios nos dio, la más renovable que jamás veremos, y utilizándola para sustituir nuestras menguantes reservas de combustibles fósiles.

  Jimmy Carter

  God, Science, Power

  Estados Unidos. Presidente (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). "Jimmy Carter"

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• The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

  Adair Turner, Barón Turner de Ecchinswell

  Doubt, Fuel, Fossils

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• De lo que podemos estar científicamente seguros es de que nuestro uso continuado de combustibles fósiles nos está empujando a un punto de no retorno

  Barack Obama

  Uso, Combustible, Fósiles

  Barack Obama (2009). "Barack Obama: Discursos de camino a la Casa Blanca".

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• [Hillart Clinton] mantiene la ilusión de que podemos hacer que los combustibles fósiles sean seguros, y que lo son, y creó una oficina para el fracking. Sabemos de quién recibe el dinero. Sabemos de quién recibe el dinero el Partido Demócrata.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Office, Fossils

  Fuente: www.politico.com

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• A menos que nos liberemos de la dependencia de estos combustibles fósiles... estamos condenando a las generaciones futuras a una catástrofe global

  Barack Obama

  Generaciones, Combustible, Fósiles

  Barack Obama (2009). "Barack Obama: Discursos de camino a la Casa Blanca".

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• Si nos fijamos sólo en la crisis climática, y en mi opinión estas son unas elecciones en las que no sólo estamos decidiendo qué tipo de mundo seremos, sino si tendremos un mundo o no, de cara al futuro. Y la crisis climática, por un lado, ya sabes, Hillary [Clinton] no ha repudiado el fracking de ninguna manera, ni los combustibles fósiles.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, Views, Fossils

  Fuente: www.politico.com

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• Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says fossil fuels are the energy of the past. We have more oil than we need. We'll never run out of it. It's all we've got.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Stupid, Past

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• Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.

  Don Cheadle

  Real, Moving, Thinking

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• Estoy agradecido a la industria de los combustibles fósiles por habernos traído el carbono concentrado que nos llevó a través de la Revolución Industrial y a través de la revolución tecnológica y nos trajo a la puerta de la revolución de las energías renovables, o lo que yo llamo la revolución de la luz solar. Pero ahí es donde debemos separarnos. Es el orden natural.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Agradecimiento, Orden, Energía

  "Entrevista ORIGIN: 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". Entrevista con Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 27 de abril de 2016.

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• Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.

  Matt Ridley

  Real, Ocean, Pressure Groups

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• I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and I think my ideas will help it make a better case for freedom.

  Alex Epstein

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• [The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.

  Alex Epstein

  Writing, Ideas, Voice

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• No utilizar combustibles fósiles equivale a no utilizar energía. Es un suicidio económico y un homicidio ecológico.

  Paul Driessen

  Suicidio, energía, combustible

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