Fossil Quotes - page 4

[B]lock Offers and their popularity have diminished over time. It's become less economic, particularly for offshore. We've been clear that we need to ensure we're moving towards just transitions. It is a process for New Zealand to acknowledge that our future is not in fossil fuels. [...] It's not where our future lies, but my plan is to transition our regions, not to jar them. (Jacinda Ardern)
In the early geological ages, when the Alps were low and the Himalayas not yet upheaved... from geological evidence of fossil and fauna, we find that an equitable climate and uniform climate prevailed over the whole surface of the globe. It is now conclusively proved that before the advent of glacial and inter-glacial periods a luxurious forest vegetation... flourished in the high latitude of the polar regions where the Sun goes below the horizon from November till March, thus showing that a warm climate prevailed in the Arctic regions in those days. View quote
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Instead the economy is a subsystem of the finite biosphere that supports it. When the economy's expansion encroaches too much on the surrounding biosphere, we begin to sacrifice natural capital (animals, plants, minerals and fossil fuels) that is worth more than the manmade capital (roads, factories, appliances) added by ‘growth'. View quote
Herman E. Daly
To control global warming, only one solution: stop burning fossil fuels. View quote
Jacques Dubochet
Reasonably, all these [fossil fuel] investments are financial dead-ends or ecological disasters. View quote
Jacques Dubochet
Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products. View quote
Robert Higgs
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills. View quote
Sylvia Earle
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area? View quote
Asa Gray
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil. View quote
Charles Jencks
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet. View quote
James Hansen
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia. (James Hansen)
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future. View quote
Janine Benyus
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar. View quote
Jeff Goodell
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution. View quote
Jeff Goodell
As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives. View quote
John M. McHugh
The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization. View quote
John Olver
Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population. View quote
John Olver
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite. View quote
Louise Leakey
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you. View quote
Louise Leakey
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil. View quote
Lucy Powell
There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels. (Lee R. Raymond)
For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer. View quote
Shuji Nakamura
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. View quote
Tim Yeo
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. View quote
Wilson Greatbatch
A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do. View quote
Francis Crick