The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
Interpretation
The quote highlights the urgency of shifting from fossil fuel dependency to clean energy alternatives.
Desmond Tutu's quote underscores the paradox of continued investment in fossil fuel exploration despite existing reserves that cannot be safely utilized. He emphasizes the need for companies to reconsider their priorities and divert financial resources toward the development of sustainable energy solutions, which are essential for addressing climate change and ensuring a safer future for the planet.
In practice
In a climate change conference, when discussing funding priorities.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.
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The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up by devoting ourselves to the study of the actual state of the living world, and to those monuments of the past in which the relics of the animate creation of former ages are best preserved and least mutilated by the hand of time.
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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
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