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I really don't think I have anything special to say.

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Your past always leads to who you are.

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I'm old fashioned. I'm not one of these young guys who think they are so smart that they can prescribe what humanity ought to do. Humanity never learns any lessons. Prescriptions don't matter. We already know exactly what to do. We just don't do it.

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There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.

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Behind every morsel of bread, fruits, or meat is a large amount of transformed fossil fuels.

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If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

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Evolution has made us omnivores, and substantial quantities of meat can be produced by feeding plant matter whose production does not directly compete with growing food crops: crop residues, food processing waste, low-quality grain, and controlled grazing by ruminants.

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All I want is to be left alone to write my books.

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Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars, flying to Hawaii, gambling in Las Vegas. We could live affluent lifestyles with half as much energy.

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Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Scientist

Born: December 9th, 1943

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