Carl Safina Quotes

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Nothing has really taken me aback more as Secretary of State than the way that the politics of energy is –… warping diplomacy around the world…we have simply got to do something about the warping now of diplomatic effort by the all-out rush for energy supply

Energy is always geopolitics.

We should not cling to crude down to the last drop - we should leave oil before it leaves us.

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.

Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

We will run out of air long before we run out of oil.

We have a military policy instead of an energy policy.

Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.

For as long as we're using fossil fuels at all, globally, Canadians should be using Canadian sources.

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.