So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.