"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present……" — David R. Brower
"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?"
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60 Quotes by David R. Brower
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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption…
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific.…
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At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're…
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and…
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today,…
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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept…
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Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in…
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the…
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
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What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and…
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