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1. "All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors." ~ David R. Brower
2. "Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem." ~ David R. Brower
3. "Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people." ~ David R. Brower
4. "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
5. "Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million." ~ David R. Brower
6. "Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom." ~ David R. Brower
7. "We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost." ~ David R. Brower
8. "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." ~ David R. Brower
9. "At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now." ~ David R. Brower
10. "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
11. "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
12. "It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad." ~ David R. Brower
13. "'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad." ~ David R. Brower
14. "There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!" ~ David R. Brower
15. "Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time." ~ David R. Brower
16. "We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open." ~ David R. Brower
17. "We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock." ~ David R. Brower
18. "When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle." ~ David R. Brower

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