For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That’s the responsibility we hold in our hands. David R. Brower Read Quote
When people say, ‘You’re not being realistic,’ they’re just trying to tag some thoughts that they can’t otherwise handle. David R. Brower Read Quote
They simply don’t know that much about what they’re doing. There isn’t enough control. There isn’t enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. David R. Brower Read Quote
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. David R. Brower Read Quote
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you’re still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem. David R. Brower Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you’re probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn’t quite make it out of the earth’s gravitational field. David R. Brower Read Quote
We’ve got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can’t say exactly where, but I think it’s back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. David R. Brower Read Quote
What’s even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they’re doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, ‘Watch out. Don’t plant too much and don’t depend on it too much.’ David R. Brower Read Quote
