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David R. Brower
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
The breeder reactor has all the problems we've just discussed - in spades - and introduces a few brand new ones all its own.
David R. Brower
Supposedly rational spokesmen want to drop our radioactive waste on the Antarctic and let it melt its way down. Still others - in England, interestingly enough - want to dump it into the Irish Sea. Maybe they figure that will end the troubles in Ireland once and for all.
David R. Brower
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
'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
David R. Brower
Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
David R. Brower
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
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
David R. Brower
It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.
David R. Brower
It's time that we all got out the pledge cards and made a pact with each other. I'll turn off my lights if you will. I'll overheat and undercool my house and office half as much, drive half as wasteful a car half as far - or ride the train instead - if you'll do the same.