The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing…

“The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.”

Jeremy Rifkin

About This Quote

This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation.

Cheap fusion could lead to complacency and environmental neglect, worsening planetary health.

In simple terms: Cheap fusion may cause ecological harm.

Key Takeaway

Beware unintended consequences of cheap energy.

Themes

energy policy environment technology risk sustainability

Mood

cautious analytical

Type

policy environmental

When to use this quote

policy planning
public awareness
industrial regulation
energy investment

Key Concepts

fusion energy tragedy of the commons innovation paradox

Questions to Reflect On

What safeguards can prevent misuse?
How to balance energy needs with ecological protection?

A Different Perspective

Economic incentives may still drive harmful practices.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Climate change Energy Enviroment Environment Eugenics Fusion Worst things

More by Jeremy Rifkin

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

Jeremy Rifkin

“raises an interesting question about the new corporate giants that are colonizing large swaths of virtual space. He asks, “how hard would it be…

Jeremy Rifkin

“It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities of the…

Jeremy Rifkin

Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies…

Jeremy Rifkin

The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view…

Jeremy Rifkin

President Obama, I voted for him. I think he's a mature politician, but here's what happened. Obama wanted a green economy. He spent billions…

Jeremy Rifkin

The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the…

Jeremy Rifkin

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of…

Jeremy Rifkin

Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

Jeremy Rifkin

“consider the fact that a journey from New York to Chicago by stagecoach would have taken three weeks or more in 1847. By 1857,…

Jeremy Rifkin

Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to…

Jeremy Rifkin

“When I empathize, I feel the frailty and transitory nature of another's existence. To empathize is to root for the other to flourish and…

Jeremy Rifkin

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

Jeremy Rifkin

What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day,…

Jeremy Rifkin

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world…

Jeremy Rifkin

Explore all 98 Jeremy Rifkin quotes

More Climate change quotes

Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing…

Enda Kenny

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

Leonardo DiCaprio

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

Donald R. Prothero

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely…

Vivienne Westwood

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

Rupert Murdoch

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields…

John F. Kerry

I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the…

Federico Pena

First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars…

David Miliband

As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But…

Edward Davey

George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans…

Steve Bullock

Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.

Luther Strange

Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the…

Nancy MacLean

21st-century foreign policy is going to be built on countries that can tackle transnational challenges together. Climate change and public health are the top…

Jake Auchincloss