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David R. Brower
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 we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
David R. Brower
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
I began to get a little suspicious in the mid-fifties during a long session I had before the Senate Interior Committee when, once again, I was advocating the use of the atom.
David R. Brower
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
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
David R. Brower
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
Do you know what a runaway reactor can do? It can produce a radioactive cloud that extends 100 miles downwind and kills everything - that could include anywhere from 10,000 to one million people - in two weeks flat.
David R. Brower
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
David R. Brower
Besides, the club has changed and is now into many of the things that its other directors used to fuss at me for.
David R. Brower
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.