"It seems that every time mankind is given……" — David R. Brower
"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."
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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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