Energy consumption Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“In the year 1500, there were about 500 million Homo sapiens in the entire world. Today, there are 7 billion.1 The total value of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“To put it slightly differently, the rate at which we need to process energy to sustain our standard of living remained at just a…

— Geoffrey West

“Aztec peasants, Babylonian shepherds, Athenian stonemasons, and Carolingian merchants spoke different languages,2 wore different clothing, and prayed to different deities, but they all ate…

— William Rosen

It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is…

— M. King Hubbert

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to…

— John Olver

I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.

— Henry Rollins

Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the…

— Sharon Gannon

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.

— Yehuda Levi

We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life.

— Martin Rees

“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

“This means that for the past thirty years, we have been wasting 86 percent of the energy we use in the production of goods…

— Jeremy Rifkin

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

— Lamar S. Smith