I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity. — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Peak oil: The over-populated UK's ability to feed and supply itself for our privileged lifestyle requires the land and resources of other… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out… — Matthew Simmons Copy Share Image
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
[The report 'World Energy Outlook 2006'] reveals that the energy future we are facing today, based on projections of current trends, is… — Claude Mandil Copy Share Image
I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people… — James R. Schlesinger Copy Share Image
Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak… — Michael Ruppert Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25… — Matthew Simmons Copy Share Image
Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar… — Andrew Nikiforuk Copy Share Image
...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in… — Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari Copy Share Image
The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak.… — Gunther Oettinger Copy Share Image
The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
Here's what peak oil is - it's not running out. It's that you no longer can produce more, and more, and more,… — Christopher Martenson Copy Share Image
Regardless of how you feel about peak oil or global warming, the increased use of natural gas is a positive thing because… — Robert Bryce Copy Share Image
There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to… — Madeleine Bunting Copy Share Image
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![“[The report 'World Energy Outlook 2006'] reveals that the energy future we are facing today, based on projections of current trends, is dirty, insecure and expensive.” quote by Claude Mandil](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f0a/claude-mandil-73618_currents_the-report-world-energy-outlook-2006-rev_3086342.png)
![“We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.” quote by James R. Schlesinger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/db5/james-r-schlesinger-55141_climate_we-are-not-good-at-recognizing-distant-t_2950109.png)
![“So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without…” quote by Madeleine Bunting](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/94f/madeleine-bunting-68050_challenges_so-far-in-facing-this-huge-peak-oil-chal_1251060.jpg)