Christopher Flavin Quotes

#1. Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts

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#2. The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

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#3. Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens of thousands of homes.

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#4. Within a few decades ... the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine ...

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#5. Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides

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#6. Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

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#7. The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become - or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

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#8. The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

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