"As technology keeps improving, the price of oil……" — Alex Shoumatoff
"As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix."
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16 Quotes by Alex Shoumatoff
Alex Shoumatoff has 16 quotes on this site.
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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in…
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Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten…
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There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by…
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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met.…
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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of…
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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them…
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until…
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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the…
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According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict…
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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by…
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More Arctic Quotes
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had…
— Richard Branson
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There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's…
— Ed Markey
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...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica,…
— Kevin E. Trenberth
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest…
— Bill McKibben
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want…
— William O. Douglas
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For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the…
— Sheila Watt-Cloutier
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According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
— George Will
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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the…
— Starhawk
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For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most…
— Lonnie Dupre
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