“Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.” RealActionIssuesIndustryClimateFinancialFuelFossilsFossil FuelDelayed Author:Bill McKibben
“There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.” NeedsEnergyNaturalWindSourceIndustryOilFuelGasCoalFossilsUrgentSuppliesFossil FuelRenewable EnergyNatural GasEnergy SourcesBurning Fossil FuelsWind PowerRenewable Energy SourcesWind EnergyGeothermalGeothermal Energy Author:Bill McKibben
“Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.” PeopleNeedsChildrenEnergySocialJusticeLevelsEconomicIndustryTomorrowOur ChildrenSocial JusticeOutcomesFuelEnterpriseStabilityFossilsFossil FuelEconomic Justice Author:Sharan Burrow
“With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry in check, the engineers in the renewable energy world are undercutting them from the other side.” WorldEnergySidesMonthsIndustryPercentChecksFuelEngineersFossilsCheaperFossil FuelRenewable EnergySolar PanelsEach Month Author:Bill McKibben
“Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.” NeedsCompanyIndustryCostScientistClimateClimate ChangeProfitOilDecadesBillionsEnormousAbsurdFuelGasMassivePollutionCarbonCoalFossilsTaxpayersFossil FuelPadsSubsidies Author:Bernie Sanders
“The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.” LongIndustryCostEnormousFuelPollutionCarbonFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Bernie Sanders
“We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have the will of the people. The only thing that's keeping us back is the fossil fuel industry's hold on our political system. That's what we need to change.” PeopleNeedsEndsPoliticalEnergyTechnologyIndustryErasFuelFossilsFossil FuelPolitical SystemsNeed A ChangeRenewable Energy Author:Mark Ruffalo
“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.” ThinkingIdeasDoneHelpingJobsCasesIndustryProudHorribleFuelFossilsFossil FuelHorrible Jobs Author:Alex Epstein
“[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.” WritingIdeasVoiceInterestPayAcceptingProgressIndustryConflictModelsResearchAbsolutesFuelOur RelationshipMinimumFossilsFossil FuelConflict Of InterestResearch And Writing Author:Alex Epstein
“Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.” PeopleBrotherIndustryRepublicanPreparedCampaignsFinanceReformFuelFundFossilsFossil FuelCampaign Finance Author:Bernie Sanders
“I am grateful to the fossil fuel industry for bringing us the concentrated carbon that took us through the Industrial Revolution and through the technological revolution and brought us to the gateway of the renewable energy revolution, or what I call the sunlight revolution. But that is where we must part ways. It's the natural order.” WayOrderEnergyNaturalRevolutionIndustryGratefulFuelSunlightTechnologicalCarbonFossilsFossil FuelRenewable EnergyGatewaysIndustrial RevolutionI Am GratefulNatural Order Author:Mark Ruffalo
“This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks and insurance companies. It's the war industry and private prisons. Certainly the fossil fuel agencies. It's not only that they're supporting this campaign, they're supporters of the Clinton Foundation. And where the Clinton Foundation ends and Hillary's [Clinton] political actions begin, that too is quite troubling.” WarEndsActionPoliticalCompanyEconomicIndustryFoundationPrisonClintonCampaignsAgencyFuelElitesSupporterFossilsFossil FuelInsurance CompaniesEpitomePolitical ActionPrivate Prisons Author:Jill Stein
“With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.” NeedsHelpingJobsFormEnergyAnswersMillionsEconomyExampleIndustryHealthyCreatingWeaponsCleanWorkersProductionsFuelTransitionEfficiencyGood JobFossilsManufacturingTransportationFossil FuelDepartureRenewable EnergyLiving WagePublic Transportation Author:Jill Stein
“I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.” ThinkingPoliticalEconomicIndustryFuelFossilsFossil FuelEconomic Power Author:Bill McKibben
“I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.” ThinkingNeedsIndustryFuelFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Bill McKibben
“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.” ThinkingWantIndustryInvolvedPressureFuelEnterpriseFossilsFossil FuelShareholders Author:Bill McKibben
“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.” NeedsUseEarthDealsProgressSpecialIndustryWasteFinancialPrivilegeAtmosphereFuelMinorsFossilsFossil FuelSweetheartSewers Author:Bill McKibben
“We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.” IndustryFuelMore MoneyFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Bill McKibben
“We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.” DealsFeetIndustryFuelFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Bill McKibben
“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.” IfsThinkingNeedsKindSidesMovementIndustryDirectFuelAssaultFossilsAdversariesFossil FuelTentacles Author:Bill McKibben
“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.” WantProblemSunWindIndustryRateFuelFossilsLiberatingFossil FuelConverting Author:Bill McKibben