Allowing Quote by David R. Brower

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the…

— Svante Arrhenius

I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous…

— Daniel Quinn

For decades we have been living lives of abundance, with little regard for our natural resources or global health. But we are now facing…

— John McCain

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project…

— David R. Brower

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

— David Attenborough

It may be a hundred-year battle to turn around our industries and finally get everyone living on sustainable energy with technology that can keep…

— Jason Mraz

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

— James Hansen

Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising that we…

— Chip Giller

“Suppose we would be able to build 200 Gigawatt worth of nuclear reactors each year or a total expected generation of roughly 1.580 TWh,…

— Mathijs Beckers

We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that…

— Denis Hayes

“Many conscientious environmentalists are repelled by the word "abundance," automatically associating it with irresponsible consumerism and plundering of Earth's resources. In the context of…

— Jeane Manning

Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost…

— Jeremy Grantham