Wangari Maathai Quotes

Cleaner, more sustainable energy is possible and can transform our lives, our economies, and our planet.

It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.

There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet] show those savings, in fact, are enough to pay the costs of creating 100% clean renewable energy.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

We know how to get all of the energy we need without using dirty or dangerous fuel sources. It is no longer a question of whether we can - but of whether we will

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources.

I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.

Historically, countries have made big energy shifts only when confronted with acute fossil-fuel crises: oil embargoes, debilitating pollution, or wars.

Some challenges remain, but the bottom line is that low-carbon options can and should play a much greater role in energy supply.

I'm all for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, et cetera. But we need much more than wind and solar.

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.

Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.

We should be moving vigorously towards renewable energy. The technology of which is right here right now.

The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.

The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain. The question is only whether it takes 30 years or 70 years.

With our abundance of wind, solar, and geothermal energy, Nevada has been a leader in moving away from carbon emissions and embracing a clean energy economy that has created good-paying jobs in our state that can't be shipped overseas.

I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

We have to transform our energy system.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have not invested so much into education, we don't have the technology and sometimes we don't even have the capital to buy this technology.