I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible…

“This isn't tolerable for the democracy in the increasing technological world. The most significant example is climate change, it turns out, for instance, that…

— John Brockman

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth…

— James Inhofe

“He also remembered a comedy he had read in his youth called “The Deluge”, which claimed the next great flood would be caused not…

— Andrea Camilleri

One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals…

— Marcellin Berthelot

Like the UAE, we have been thinking of the time after hydrocarbons for a very long time.

— Joe Kaeser

CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean hydrocarbons, such…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's biggest third-class…

— John D. MacDonald

Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves.…

— Noam Chomsky

Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons…

— Marcellin Berthelot

Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased…

— Frederick Seitz

I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and…

— Matt Ridley

Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture…

— Nicholas Stern

Oil production, energy production are growing, though the latter has gone down by about 1 percent here, I believe... By the way, we occupy…

— Vladimir Putin

Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen,…

— Andrew Nikiforuk