Best Carbon Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“We need to be focused on solutions for the climate crisis. One of the solutions I find promising is carbon pricing.”

“The push by some to eliminate natural meat is based on the fact that raising livestock is considered unsustainable and requires large amounts of land, thereby creating a large carbon footprint.”

“Carbon' is the first official Hindi sci-fi film.”

“I think that idea is more an emphasis on being in the right place at the right time, not to say I'm a carbon copy of Inzaghi. I had a little YouTube of his goals, and watched a 15-minute reel of him, and obviously a lot of his goals are one-touch finishes.”

“We want an economy that grows health and wellbeing, not debt and carbon emissions. An economy that prepares and protects us from shocks to come, rather than making them worse. An economy that shares resources to meet all our needs, regardless of background. An economy that lets us live.”

“I'm determined to use all of my powers to make sure that Britain leads the way in sourcing the energy we need from low carbon sources.”

“America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to clean water.”

“Improving our transportation infrastructure reduces car trips, helps us reach our carbon emission reduction goals, is healthier for our residents, and saves lives. Too often in the past we have been slow to make these common sense improvements to our streets.”

“My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies.”

“I listened to the script of 'Carbon' at the end of 2014. I liked it the moment I heard it. I wanted to do it.”

“I have a car, but I don't use it very much - only when I go for my shoots - so the carbon footprint is tiny.”

“Ultimately, I do want us to be a transformative government. I want, when we've left, for people to say we're not just clean-green anymore: we're carbon neutral, or we're striving to be.”

“I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems.”

“What we are asking the consumer to do is learn to buy and have habits in a completely different way. To think about the carbon footprint of whatever they're buying. Whether it's food, the t-shirt, the car.”

“I haven't got an exact number for my carbon footprint although if it's anywhere near my normal footprint it'll be size 13 wide.”

“Knowing how much carbon dioxide the ocean is storing is crucial to modeling future climate changes, and given the prevalence of these creatures around the world and how much water they can filter, it is likely a significant amount.”

“There's no miracle formula but we have to move towards a lower carbon economy. We don't have any other choice.”

“I am one of those from the green movement who recognises the low carbon benefits of nuclear generation.”

“The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.”

“The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government.”

“I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.”

“The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.”

“We have for many years included a price of carbon in our outlook. We put it in as a cost. Everything gets tested against it.”

“There are many different ways we can choose to reduce our carbon impacts.”

“Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.”

“Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.”

“Going meatless reduces our carbon footprint and helps us lead the way towards climate change.”

“I love driving. I still drive a 1993 Toyota Camry. I do want to get an electric car, but it's less of a carbon footprint if you keep your old, fuel-efficient car on the road than if you say 'build me a whole new car.'”

“I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.”

“Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.”

“There are several types of greenhouse gasses, but carbon dioxide is the most important.”

“If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.”

“There is simply no defending the preferred mode of travel for many of the celebrity crazies who lecture us about carbon credits. Do you think these folks are willing to give up their mansions and private jets in order to 'save the planet?'”

“Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy.”

“The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.”

“We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.”

“The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.”

“Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.”

“The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.”

“Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.”

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

“Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.”

“The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.”

“The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.”

“There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.”

“Nothing is being done of any real significance. Our demand is the government must tell the truth about the crisis we're in. And that includes working with communities to build resilience... We want to go to net carbon zero emissions by 2015 and reduce our consumption levels.”

“My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.”

“We tour the world and my carbon footprint is massive. I feel like it's my responsibility to do something - not just to offset it but to help make a difference.”

“We need to reduce carbon emissions, protect Maine's key industries and preserve our coastlines from flooding and rising sea levels.”

“As governor of Washington, I've seen firsthand what's possible when you invest in clean energy - reducing carbon pollution and supporting family-wage jobs that are growing twice as fast as those in any other industry.”

“Many have criticized a federal carbon tax, saying that it would increase energy costs. Some continue to oppose it even when that revenue would be used to reduce other taxes in what's known as a tax swap.”

“I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago. And there's something lovely about that play, and making mud pies and a mess. That's a lovely privilege.”

“I'm obviously in favor of a carbon tax. And I think climate change is one of the biggest threats to our planet.”

“Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees.”

“You'll reduce your carbon footprint by cutting back on meat just once a week.”

“The requirement for small business owners to comply with ESG will completely cripple our local business sector with no measurable goals or proof as to how these practices will actually reduce carbon emissions.”

“If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.”

“Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish protect the carbon in salt marshes, as they prevent herbivorous crabs and snails wiping out the plants that hold the marshes together.”

“I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing happening with more and more CEOs stepping up, saying, 'I have to fight carbon emissions.'”

“Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.”

“Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.”

“The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.”

“Recycling, cutting back on driving, and changing out old light bulbs for energy-efficient ones might save half a ton of carbon a year. A household going car-free, flight-free, and vegan - changes impractical, if not outright impossible, for many families to make - might reduce emissions by four tons a year.”

“The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.”

“The Liberals would love to have people believe that the choice is a carbon tax or nothing. I reject that.”

“Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.”

“I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint.”

“A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral deposits around the planet.”

“Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.”

“I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.”

“The fact is that any carbon legislation is designed to make us not use coal. So if you're a state that has a lot of coal, you're going to get hammered.”

“As soon as you plow, you're releasing carbon.”

“The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.”

“If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.”

“We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.”

“Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.”

“A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon.”

“I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.”

“As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people.”

“I'm worried about economic growth in the United States. And the creation of jobs, output, and employment. And if you tax people who work, you're going to get less people working. And what the carbon tax would do is remove the tax from people who work and put it on a product in the ground.”

“Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.”

“Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.”

“If carbon came out of the ground, it has to go back into the ground.”

“People are really interested in these fundamental questions: Why is life based on carbon and not silicon?”

“We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.”

“In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.”

“I bargain-shop all the time, but then I started learning about how those products are made and about how if you spend a little bit more money on ethical clothing that are using recycled materials - like, my favorite dresses are by Christy Dawn... the carbon footprint that they're leaving is so minimal, and it's really worth the extra money.”

“I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright typewriter, and I'd try to sell them at school.”

“We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.”

“I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.”

“An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility - along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure - would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.”

“Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.”

“What the world needs most for its stability, and what the U.S. needs for its national security, is economic growth, which is driven first and foremost by expanded carbon use.”

“Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax.”

“Norway has had a carbon tax in place for a long time. This has not slowed down industrial development. Rather, it has encouraged innovation and the development of solutions that reduce emissions and bring down operating costs.”

“Our pollution out of carbon emissions is still very, very low compared to the world.”

“I am concerned in general about carbon emissions and machine learning.”

“I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.”

“Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution.”

“The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.”