Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
quote by Dennis Weaver
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Can You Hook Me Up?
Addiction to fossil fuels
Global warming
Just don't get me started
poem by Tom J. Mariani
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We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
quote by Bernie Sanders
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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.
quote by Wilson Greatbatch
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One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.
quote by Lincoln Diaz-Balart
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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.
quote by Lee R. Raymond
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You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
quote by Jack Herer
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When We Abuse Nature
For the burning of fossil fuels there will be some price to pay
A looming Natural disaster some climate experts say
A looming disaster of destruction and death
Climate change than terrorism to human kind is a far greater threat.
Our abuse of Nature is out of control
Our burning of fossil fuels especially coal
From our Earth Mother who feeds us far too much we have stole
When we dig up her ground we root at Nature's soul.
The things we will destroy ourselves with in Nature we've found
Uranium for nuclear reactors and bomb making should be left in the ground
Other safer forms of energy that humans can use
When we abuse Nature ourselves we abuse.
On polluted or clean air and water we do have a choice
And for our abuse of Nature we will pay the price
It is due to our Earth Mother our gift of life we enjoy
And in trying to destroy her 'tis ourselves we'll destroy.
poem by Francis Duggan
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I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.
quote by Lee R. Raymond
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We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.
quote by Albert Wynn
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The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
quote by Lindsey Graham
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Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives.
Carl Sagan in Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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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.
quote by John McHugh
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
quote by Dan Lipinski
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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.
quote by John Olver
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The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.
quote by Dan Lipinski
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A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
quote by John Coleman
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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.
quote by John Olver
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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.
Kurt Vonnegut in Cold Turkey
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Decay Of Innocence
We value Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation 3,
Over our ethics and the way the world should be.
Double quarter pounder, super sized coke and fries,
While Cambodians starve and children die.
We abuse our teachers and our schools,
While children slave on fields as labour tools.
This pen in my hand as I write this now,
Was manufactured by a child in a factory town.
We turn on the news; the new IPhone is here,
And we neglect the next segment of fatalities, famine and fear.
We are proud of our reputation; the fattest nation on earth!
While malnutrition plagues children from birth.
And we smoke our cigarettes and drink our beer,
Ignorant that we’re only bringing our own death near.
We permit factories to pump fossil fuels into the air,
Disregarding its effect: I don’t know… I don’t care.
Coral reefs die, Bush fires burn,
And mines empty the earth, while oil rigs churn.
We are devastated by Swine flu and the many that die,
Not shedding a tear, but for Michael Jackson we cry.
And sons of Palestine, bleeding in hospital beds,
Getting slaughtered by Israeli planes flying overhead.
We are aware of the economic crisis, feeling its pain,
However is it not conspicuous, we are to blame?
What will be of us once our IPods are broken, our pens write no more?
Once cigarettes, alcohol and drugs consume us all?
And long after the last corals are dead and forests burnt?
And long after fossil fuels plague the earth?
What’s done is done and we can’t change the past,
But the future is now and the future is us.
I was once the Cambodian hungry in my sleep,
I was once working in fields, blisters in my feet.
I was a child of malnutrition searching for food in an empty bin,
While others fuelled their addiction, on the streets, money in their tin.
I was once a child soldier at the age of ten,
And once worked in a factory to manufacture this pen.
I write this now not to boast or preach,
But to educate, inspire and to teach.
Equality is not a privilege, but a right to us all,
As is laughter for a child and playing football.
The sparkle in a child’s eye, the essence of innocence and to be gay,
Nothing should take that angelic nature away.
However neglecting the world, not looking beyond today,
Causes that innocence to decay.
poem by Basil Jaber (2009)
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What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.
quote by Julie Cochrane
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