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- Nov 07, 2020
Fossil Fuel Quotes
The reckoning is arriving faster than expected.
These lines track a shift already underway rather than a hypothetical one. One speaker calls fossil fuel divestment the fastest-growing push they've personally witnessed, a sign the Climate conversation has genuinely changed.
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- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever the media asked me how much I have received in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, my unapologetic answer was, 'Not enough.'
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate climate policy.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child's play.
- Energy Sources
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see us move from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable economy - if not in my lifetime, then in the lifetime of my children.
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- Nov 07, 2020