Brazil Quote by Michael Shellenberger

There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.

— Michael Shellenberger

The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.

— Michael Shellenberger

I actually argue that renewables are worse than fossil fuels. It's a physical manifestation of lower power densities. More land, more materials, more mining,…

— Michael Shellenberger

Nuclear is the only energy source that has proven capable of fully replacing fossil fuels at low-cost in wealthy nations. While hydro-electric dams can…

— Michael Shellenberger

Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities increases the…

— Michael Shellenberger

You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil…

— David Goodstein

“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition…

— Jane Mayer

“People who claim, for example, that capitalism can overcome its dependence on fossil fuel have either not researched the question or they are on…

— Stan Goff

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

— Michael Pollan

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

— David Goodstein