Renewable Energy Quotes

“You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.”
― Bill Maher

“To light a lamp as a source of light is about as wasteful of energy as to burn down ones house to roast one's pork.”
― J.B.S. Haldane

“Applying renewable energy sources in full at scale will make possible a multitude of new business opportunities.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Born in 1987 in Malawi, William grew up in a village with no electricity or running water, and in a family that barely survived on the food it grew with a little left over to pay for school. After a terrible drought in 2001, William had to drop out of school because his family could no longer afford his school fees. He kept educating himself by going to the library and reading everything he could. One day, he found a book on windmills and determined he'd build one. So he did. Starting with scrap parts he found in light bulbs and radios. William built the first windmill he or his village had ever seen. And it worked, generating electricity for his family and his neighbors.
Williamkamkwamba.com”
― Chelsea Clinton, It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

“What we cannot do, under any circumstances, is precisely what the fossil fuel industry is determined to do and what your government is so intent on helping them do: dig new coal mines, open new fracking fields, and sink new offshore drilling rigs. All that needs to stay in the ground.”
― Naomi Klein

“The better news is that as we transform how we generate energy, how we move ourselves around, how we grow our food and how we live in cities, we have a historic opportunity to build a society that is fairer on every front, and where everyone is valued. Here's how we do it. We make sure that, wherever possible, our renewable energy comes from community-controlled providers and cooperatives, so that decisions about land use are made democratically and profits from energy production are used to pay for much-needed services.”
― Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

“For electric vehicles to make an impact on climate change, they must be powered by renewable energy sources, otherwise, the powerplants producing the electricity to power the vehicles would end up dumping more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than we are able to reduce by replacing regular vehicles with electric ones.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“If we are to make significant strides in climate action through electric vehicles, then producing them as a class statement for the rich won't do, they must be made affordable enough to be owned by the vast population of working classes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Electric cars won't do anything for climate emergency, unless all electricity comes from renewable energy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Sonnet of Renewable Energy

There is a plug point in the sky,
Which is beaming electricity 24/7.
Yet we drill holes into the earth,
To suck oil and power our concrete heaven.
When humankind first started drilling,
They had no idea of its implication.
But eventually scientists raised warnings,
Yet drilling continued due to lack of efficient solution.
Fossil fuel has already damaged the climate,
And we no longer have time for scholarly fight.
So I say to scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs,
Come up with affordable home solar-grid.
Electric cars won't do anything for climate emergency,
Unless all electricity comes from renewable energy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“While climate change threatens our environment on the one hand, and fossil fuel depletion threatens our economic system on the other, solar energy holds out the promise of protecting both of them.”
― Mahmood H. Shubbak, Forging Ahead: Technology Development & Emerging Economies

“Ignorance is bliss. But one day, people will realise the sheer scale of destruction humans do on Earth. We can all do our part to improve what we can.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“Misinformation rules when crucial information is suppressed.”
― Tushar Choudhary, Climate and Energy Decoded

“Over 40% of the global population does not have the luxury to worry about future problems because they are presently struggling to meet their basic everyday needs.”
― Tushar Choudhary, Critical Comparison of Low-Carbon Technologies: A practical guide to prioritizing energy technologies for climate change mitigation

“The wind blows every day, every day the sun shines, every day the waves roll against the shore, and the earth is warm below us. We can understand these renewable sources of energy as given to us, since they are the sources that have powered life on the planet for as long as there has been a planet. We need not destroy the earth to make use of them.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

“These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and our climate might be doomed. But everything we did mattered. All of it.

We now know that we're going to keep global temperature rise below the most dangerous tipping points that climate scientists warned us about a decade ago. We can look our kids in the eye and tell them we didn't let them down. Now we can watch their dreams unfold."

— Mary Anne Hitt, "A Love Letter from the Clean Energy Future”
― Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

“Vandalism isn't activism, you morons! If you want to help the climate, help the green energy industry become mainstream.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Climate Activists (not all) have turned into Climate Karens, which has done nothing for the climate crisis, but has only added one more crisis to the list. BLM activists don't go about abusing white people, Pride activists don't go about harassing straight people, and yet, that's precisely what has become the norm in climate protests. Vandalism isn't activism, you morons! If you want to help the climate, help the green energy industry become mainstream.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Climate Activists have turned into Climate Karens, which has done nothing for the climate crisis, but has only added one more crisis to the list.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“As a society, we cannot afford to overlook the nexus between environmental health and reproductive well-being. The future health and vitality of our communities depend on our collective commitment to creating a cleaner, safer environment for everyone, especially those who are most vulnerable.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava