Energy Equity Quotes

You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.

We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

For most of the countries I visit, getting affordable energy in the hands of the people is a preoccupation.

Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.

Equity and energy can grow concurrently only to a point. Below a threshold of per capita wattage, motors improve the conditions for social progress. Above this threshold, energy grows at the expense of equity.

In my current work on global warming, I argue that the only apparent solution to the deep problem of climate change would require very large transfers of wealth from rich nations to poor nations, so that the entire world can make the transition to renewable forms of energy as fast as possible.

I love the concept of community energy.