From: Master Resource

By: Robert Bradley Jr.

Date: October 14, 2025

DOE Secretary Chris Wright: Energy Exceptionalism Quotations

“… my passion for bettering human lives via improved access to energy is unwavering.” (- Chris Wright, below)

It is a topsy-turvy new energy world where reality bats last. With the physics of energy overcoming the ‘magical thinking’ of renewables and deep decarbonization, and with a push in the U.S. under Trump, the Paris Accord (‘a fraud really, a fake‘) is going the way of the Kyoto Protocol. The forced smiles of Climate Week in New York City last month will be harder to maintain at COP 29 in Brazil. Perhaps it will be the last one as more and more countries exit, just as businesses have from the decarbonization alliances.

The new reality and politics has a central world figure in Donald Trump. But behind Trump is the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright. Some of his important quotations follow.

“The Paris Agreement is silly. To agree to get to net zero 2050, it’s just a crazy, bad idea. No. 1, it’s impossible, and to try to even nudge in that direction just makes everyone poorer and makes their lives worse.” (- Chris Wright, quoted in Sara Schonhardt, “Wright Dismisses Global Climate Efforts: ‘Silly‘,” ClimateWire (September 8, 2025) (continue reading)

DOE Secretary Chris Wright: Energy Exceptionalism Quotations