"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."

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Source : Kenneth S. Deffeyes (2008). “The Future of Fossil Fuels: From "Hubbert's Peak"”, p.160, Princeton University Press

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

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