Kenneth S. Deffeyes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.
-- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#Years #Oil #Inattention
Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.
-- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#Running #Oil #Years
This much is certain... No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea exploration, no drilling in the South China Sea, no SUV replacements, no renewable energy projects can be brought on at a sufficient rate to avoid a bidding war for the remaining oil.
-- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#War #Years #Sea
The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground,
-- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#Thinking #Oil #Cages
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.
-- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#Agriculture #Fuel #Renewable Resources
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.
-- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#War #Four #Pestilence
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.
-- Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#War #Years #Pestilence

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
To fight, we must have oil for our machine.
We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes famous quotes

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