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"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."
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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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"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."
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"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?"
"All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors."
"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."
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