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
Christopher FlavinThe real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development
Christopher FlavinRenewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.
Christopher FlavinThe challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has becomeโor else scrap it and get ready to start all over.
Christopher Flavin