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

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

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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 feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air."

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"Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom."

Love

"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place."

Work

"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."

People

"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."

Time

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

Being

"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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"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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"The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now."

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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?"

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