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

- David R. Brower
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It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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