David R. Brower quotes - page 2

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 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. View quote
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem. View quote
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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. View quote
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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. View quote
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We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. View quote
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It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible. View quote
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We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open. View quote
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We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock. View quote
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What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon? View quote
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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. (David R. Brower)
They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. View quote
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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.' View quote
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We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. View quote
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