Christopher Martenson quotes

“The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.”
-- Christopher Martenson

Source : "The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment". Book by Christopher Martenson, February 14, 2011.

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“I don't take left-right on any of my positions. I take common sense and so again, if alternative energy saves money, it creates jobs, it enhances national security, it's good for the environment - I'm trying to find who's against it, right.”
-- Christopher Martenson

Source : "Obama’s new energy plan: Why not put the fed's trillions into renewables?". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. June 2, 2014.

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“So, congratulations humans, your global contribution is now on par with a gigantic meteor slamming into the Earth.”
-- Christopher Martenson

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“Here's what peak oil is - it's not running out. It's that you no longer can produce more, and more, and more, year after year. World oil production has been going up about 1.8-2 percent per annum for decades. And that's what the world economy got attuned to.”
-- Christopher Martenson

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“When it comes to energy policy, I don't think that it's up to the individuals to make energy policy.”
-- Christopher Martenson

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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

“Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.”

“History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.”

“The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.”

Source : "The cure is working" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

“There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.”

“Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.”

Source : 1956 In the Observer, 17 Jun.