Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel addiction»

As if an entire country, culture, history and language are logical externalities of our fossil fuel addiction.

The world must dump its fossil fuel addiction, but liquid fossil fuels (petrol, kerosine, diesel) are very convenient ways of storing enough energy to power motor vehicles, including ships, planes, trains, cars and trucks.

This has done enormous harm through climate change and ocean acidification as well as air pollution that kills millions of people world wide each year so we must kick the fossil fuel addiction as quickly as possible.

This is the story in a nutshell: If you want a compelling synopsis of how we got into the mess we're in with our fossil fuel addiction (and a very personal one, Tickell grew up in Louisiana and saw first had petrochemical pollution all the time) and how we just might be able to kick the fossil fuel habit, then FUEL should be high up on your list of must - see films.

True, given the unfathomable economic scale of our fossil fuel addiction, $ 5.9 million is not an awful lot of money.

Federal investment in energy innovation is in line with America's great tradition of technological achievement, and it can finally tackle our fossil fuel addiction, accelerate the transition to energy independence, and boost our economic competitiveness, all in one bold step.

Both our fossil fuel addiction and our growing meat addiction as manifested in factory farms need to be addressed collectively.

Factory Farmed Fuel Not Solution to Fossil Fuel Addiction The big essential problem here (apart from financials, we'll leave that aside) is this: Even though this fuel is utilizing waste products, something normally considered a good thing, that waste is generated by factory farming, something at least as bad — both statistically in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and ethically in terms of animal welfare — as the fossil fuels being replaced.

If the tariff I'm suggesting helps to get some thinking going about fossil fuel addiction, then it may be useful in that manner as well and not just in making our farmers whole.

The U.S. can not shake its fossil fuel addiction by going cold turkey.

The European Commission has recognised the benefits of community - owned renewables and cooperatives, but is failing to kick its fossil fuel addiction, at the expense of the climate, and the Paris agreement.»

For our health, our national security and our economic competitiveness, we need to curb our fossil fuel addiction.

-RSB- production, transport, and consumption represent continued fossil fuel addiction that guarantees runaway climate change...

And it is and will be very difficult for us, particularly here in North America, to confront our fossil fuel addiction as well as lessen our impact on the climate more generally, individually and also as a society as a whole.

They want to avoid the fossil fuel addiction of the United States.

Antoine Simon, extractive industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Europe desperately needs to kick its fossil fuel addiction, but the fossil fuel lobby has embedded itself deep in the heart of European decision making.

He must explain that a rising carbon price is needed to phase out our fossil fuel addiction.»

GM, Ford, and Chrysler have been deceiving the American people for decades with this fossil fuel addiction scare and we, the American people, should not tolerate their deceptions any longer.

We have to stop fueling our fossil fuel addiction and say no to dirty tar sands.

More broadly, calculations rarely account for the externalized costs of fossil fuel addiction.

Carbon tax with 100 percent dividend is needed to wean us off fossil fuel addiction.

Sure, we only meant to draw attention to problems of continued fossil fuel addiction.

Solving our fossil fuel addiction and altering the course of global warming can be handled with a good overall strategy, but that strategy would not be based on a compromise that has special interests defining the details.

In my musical sideline, I did my share of such singing, with one song of mine, «Liberated Carbon,» lampooning our fossil fuel addiction.

My position on AGW is I don't care which side is right, because whichever side is right, if we don't get off the fossil fuel addiction we're in big trouble.

The Kia Soul EV is an interesting choice if you're ready to give up your fossil fuel addiction.

We don't need more time to «figure out how to get off our fossil fuel addiction».

It really doesn't matter whether the fossil fuels addiction of ours (to quote George W. Bush again (this must be his most intelligent remark, ever)-RRB- is not being dealt with by the authorities and peoples of whichever country you might want to visit.

Not exact matches

Will governments, investors and green - minded consumers, who put their faith in the sun's power to help wean us off our fossil - fuel addiction, back away from another technology that promised too much — in jobs and profits as much as in renewable energy — and failed to deliver?

We either are going to continue our addiction to dirty, dangerous fossil fuels or we're going to take a better path, the new path towards renewables and we're going to open up our ocean waters to offshore wind.»

He also supports a «Green New Deal» to end the country's addiction to fossil fuels and invest in green and sustainable energy.

«His weak green light to renewable fuels, refusal to cut fossil fuel subsidies and his call for further imports, completely undermines last year's recognition of the need to end the nation's oil addiction,» she said.

Photographer J. Henry Fair has documented the landscapes left behind by the industrial processes that feed the world's fossil - fuel addiction — as well as many of the necessities and luxuries of modern life that energy makes possible, from plastics to paper towels.

A case has been made that the absence of effective governmental leadership is related to the effect of special interests on policy, as well as to public relations efforts by organizations that profit from the public's addiction to fossil fuels [237], [250].

Rather, it is far more insidious and pervasive; it is an addiction to an energy intensive lifestyle driven by copious amounts of fossil fuel combustion.

When will the human race recognize it is rendering the planet uninhabitable with its addiction to fossil fuel?

Fossil fuel use may have some characteristics of an addiction, or at least an ingrained habit.

It only requires the will to look toward the future and to curb our addiction to fossil fuels.

I am happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party --- as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels.

For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self - destructive addiction that will destroy our planet.

While Broecker is an advocate of utilizing alternative fuels, he is realistic about humanity's addiction to fossil fuels — especially in industrializing nations.

«Congressman Heinrich puts significant faith in science, and he knows how important it is to address our addiction to fossil fuels,» said David Wilmot, Ph.D., Ocean Champions» President and Co-Founder.

Actual temperature data doesn't cooperate with their party line that mankind is ruining the planet with its addiction to so - called fossil fuels and its appetite for ample, affordable energy.

To put it simply, nuclear and hydro are very long term investments, efficiency, wind and solar are investments and fossil fuels are an addiction.

our future depends upon immediate withdrawal from fossil fuel drug addiction.

«Society needs to wean itself from the addiction to fossil fuels as quickly as possible,» Howarth said.

Scientific American: The world must spend an extra $ 700 billion a year to curb its addiction to fossil fuels blamed for worsening floods and heat waves and rising sea levels, a study issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF) showed on Monday.

Even if the world can break its addiction to fossil fuels and peak carbon emissions soon, it could still be too late to prevent devastating climate change.

The Lieberman - Warner American Climate InSecurity Act (A-CISA) has, as its core centerpiece, a poorly structured Cap and Trade program, inadequate for achieiving required reductions in US (and Global) GreenHouse Gase (GHG) emissions while giving away $ 500 billion (and likely more) to serial polluters, making the task of reducing America's fossil - fuel addiction that much more costly -LSB-...]

So, following this logic, it's humanitarian to continue, even to expand, our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels worldwide.