Chai Jing Quotes

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

The hotter summers get, the more we become dependent on air-conditioning, and the more of it we use, which ensures that summers will be even hotter.”

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal.

Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

It's not going to help the country to be subsidizing uneconomical forms of energy - whether you call them 'green,' 'renewable' or whatever. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease.

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

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.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years if we continue to use it.

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.