Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
Amory LovinsThe barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.
Amory LovinsRely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital.
Amory LovinsMany business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.
Amory LovinsIf you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.
Amory Lovins