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" Their particular ire was directed at David Swensen, the legendary head of the Yale endowment, whose investment returns had, among other things, financed the scholarships of many students. “If we stopped producing fossil fuels today, we would all die,” Swensen had recently said. “We wouldn’t have food. We wouldn’t have transportation. We wouldn’t have air conditioning. We wouldn’t have clothes.” He added, “The real problem is the consumption” and “every one of us is a consumer.” The president of another major university was surprised when told that the financial loss from divesting energy would be greater than the university’s entire budget for undergraduate scholarships. "
― Daniel Yergin , The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
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" Yet, while energy transition has become a pervasive theme all around the world, disagreement rages, both within countries and among them, on the nature of the transition: how it unfolds, how long it takes, and who pays. “Energy transition” certainly means something very different to a developing country such as India, where hundreds of millions of impoverished people do not have access to commercial energy, than to Germany or the Netherlands. "
― Daniel Yergin , The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations