Ian Lowe Quotations

But China cannot be complacent, ... In the last year its GDP grew nine percent, but energy use increased 15 percent and oil consumption grew almost 20 percent.

China's dream of modernization can be based on a new approach to energy,

the dangerous myth that nuclear energy is a clean alternative.

The science shows we need to reduce carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2050. This is a global challenge, ... China has to take it seriously, but so do Australia and the USA, both of which are still acting unacceptably and promoting needless greenhouse pollution.

Oil and gas are limited resources, ... Wasteful use of these fuels and the burning of coal are the main causes of global warming.

No matter how strong and how valid the assurances that China or any other country gives us, once we export uranium it's outside of our control, so we're making the world a dirtier and more dangerous place by exporting uranium.

The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.