Grubel stated the following;
“ I have been paid very generously all my life, being a professor devoting myself to putting out these ideas and my hope is that eventually if there is a major catastrophe, there will be enough people around who will say, well this may be the time to try out this new idea, when and whether this will happen, I don’t know, but as far as I’m concerned I’ve done my job of introducing these ideas into the public domain and now its up to your generation of young people the next generation, to see whether its worth it or not”.