3 Quotes by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.