Believe Quote by Vaclav Smil

“Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.”

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Meat eaters don't like me because I call for moderation, and vegetarians don't like me because I say there's nothing wrong with eating meat.…

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America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley's would-be masters of the universe have discovered…

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When you talk in terms of electricity, renewable is very important. Hydro in Manitoba. Hydro in Sweden. Wind in Denmark. Of course, those are…

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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately…

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Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.

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In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get…

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Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they…

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Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food.

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There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.

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I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you…

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“I wrote this book because I wanted to narrate the great, and a truly nation-building, story of US manufacturing—and because I believe that without…

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Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a…

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