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David R. Brower

"When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle."

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"When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle."

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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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"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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"Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time."
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"I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that."
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"'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad."
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"What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'"
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"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."
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"It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad."
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