Blame Quote by Michael Shellenberger

“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels. When everyone…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and…

— William Kamkwamba

“If we look at the rise of our own civilization over the past 100,000 years, since modern humans emerged in Africa, it can be…

— Michio Kaku

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point…

— Barack Obama

Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of…

— Tulsi Tanti

Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from…

— Bill McKibben

With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work,…

— Wendell Berry

I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

— Hugo Chavez

Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery…

— Femi Kuti

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put…

— Ronald Reagan

The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good…

— Mark Steyn