For how many people
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. David R. Brower
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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. David R. Brower
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. David R. Brower
Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you’re probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn’t quite make it out of the earth’s gravitational field. David R. Brower
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. David R. Brower
Perhaps we’ll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. David R. Brower
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that’s plutonium. David R. Brower
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
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. David R. Brower
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. David R. Brower
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. David R. Brower