Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.

I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

The key thing is to get off our reliance on fossil fuel.

I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small.

By 2020, we'll be able to live without oil.

Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.

The costs of solar energy across the world have come down so fast that its growth as a cheap, clean energy source has been exponential.

Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.

I'm all for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, et cetera. But we need much more than wind and solar.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

Obviously the world is moving away from high carbon energy to low carbon energy, and eventually moving away toward renewable energy. So it is in the interest of Africa to move towards that, because that's where the world is moving.

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet] show those savings, in fact, are enough to pay the costs of creating 100% clean renewable energy.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.

We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

We couldn't go to the moon on whale oil. We don't have the capacity yet to consider doing such things as harnessing current sunlight. We're burning ancient sunlight in order to get us to where we now are. But it's costly.

We know how to get all of the energy we need without using dirty or dangerous fuel sources. It is no longer a question of whether we can - but of whether we will

The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term.