"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."
― David R. Brower
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Environmental
― David R. Brower
More From David R. Brower
- "There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!"
- "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."
- "It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it."
More In Environmental
- "The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don’t know where your next meal is coming from, it’s hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line."― Bjorn Lomborg
- "I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future."― Bernard Sanders
- "Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state."― Matt Gonzalez