- Mark Jacobson: The current energy infrastructure results in about 2.5 to 4 million deaths per year worldwide from respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and complications from asthma.
- Erik Brynjolfsson, Ph. D.: I think it is very realistic for us to eliminate, completely eliminate absolute poverty worldwide, not just in the United States, by the year 2035.
- Jacque Fresco: When we computerize everything and start producing things and make things available it will be too cheap to monitor.
- Roxanne Meadows: The Venus Project proposes automated canal-diggers to bring rising sea-waters into below-sealevel deserts, enabling them to bloom.
- Mark Jacobson: We would need about 4 million large wind-turbines to power 50% of the world for all purposes.
- Paul Wright: The USA has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. China has four times as many people as the Unites States does and half as many prisoners.