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David R Brower Quotes
Realistic is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word realistic is all bad. - David R Brower Quotes
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. - David R Brower Quotes
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. - David R Brower Quotes
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. Its supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but its in the Pacific Ocean instead. - David R Brower Quotes
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, You know, were having a little problem with waste these days. I didnt know what he meant then, but I know now. - David R Brower Quotes
Bring diversity back to agriculture. Thats what made it work in the first place. - David R Brower Quotes
Even as recently as 69, I still had the illusion, you see, that atomic energy could be a safe alternative to damming all our rivers for power. - David R Brower Quotes
Even if you build the perfect reactor, youre still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem. - David R Brower Quotes
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? Thats the responsibility we hold in our hands. - David R Brower Quotes
I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present. - David R Brower Quotes
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while were drastically cutting our energy consumption, were actually raising our standard of living. - David R Brower Quotes
I dont think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system. - David R Brower Quotes
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in 52, walked the plank there in 69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. - David R Brower Quotes
I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams. - David R Brower Quotes
I was born in Berkeley, California 60 years ago and I dropped out of college in my sophomore year. The rest of my education came a little more slowly. - David R Brower Quotes
I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then Im worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor. - David R Brower Quotes
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? - David R Brower Quotes
It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it. - David R Brower Quotes
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. - David R Brower Quotes
Its like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. - David R Brower Quotes
Its very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just cant understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isnt scientifically possible. - David R Brower Quotes
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. - David R Brower Quotes
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we keep our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This solution, I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. - David R Brower Quotes
Perhaps well realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. - David R Brower Quotes
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? - David R Brower Quotes
The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right. - David R Brower Quotes
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. - David R Brower Quotes
The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now. - David R Brower Quotes
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and thats plutonium. - David R Brower Quotes
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! - David R Brower Quotes
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