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Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Benefits Carbon Clean Conserve Economic Energy Energy Sources Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Implementing Measures Price Provide Putting Relatively Renewable Renewable Energy Renewable Energy Sources Shifting Simple Solutions Some Sources Taxes Through Would

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Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Beyond Detrimental Effects Energy Environmental Fewer Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Impacts Individual Move Must Our Overall Priorities Reducing Supplies Top Use Water

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Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Alternative Boy Economic Economic Growth Energy Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Future Growth Japan Key Lie Model Our Poster Really Renewable Renewable Energy Show Then Will

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Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

~Dennis Weaver

Topics: Addiction Environmental Every Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Oil Our Practically Primarily Problem

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Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down, soils eroded, forests cut faster than they grow, fish caught faster than they reproduce, non-renewable fossil fuels burnt without developing substitutes.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Being Both Burnt Caught Cut Developing Down Drawn Economy Eroded Faster Fish Forests Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Ground Grow Limits Physical Reached Reproduce States Sustainable Than United United States Water Without World

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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.

~Fatih Birol

Topics: Age Also Bad Bad News Benefits Change Climate Climate Change Economic Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuel Fuels Greet Look News Only Short-Term Should Therefore Unconditionally

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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Alike Change Clean Climate Climate Change Combat End Energy Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Help Humans Other Our Poses Reliance Renewable Renewable Energy Severe Threat Wildlife Will Wind

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A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Companies Comprehensive Develop Exploring Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Group Helps Investors Linked Market Out Owning Performance Screen Stock Stock Market Stocks Track Transparent Worked

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Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Coal Exclude Fossil Fossil Fuels Foundations Fuels Gas Growing Investors Looking Money Movement Oil Out Pension People Portfolio Pressure Stocks Universities Want Who

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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Created Decades End Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Our Policies Reliance Supported Ultimately Will

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