"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

Power, People

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"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."

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"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."

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

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"We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost."

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"We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open."

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