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David R. Brower

"Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people."

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"Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people."

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"Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead."
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"Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom."
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"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place."
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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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"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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"They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery."
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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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"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."
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