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. David R. Brower More Quotes by David R. Brower More Quotes From 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 records political thinking 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 here-and-there organization country Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed. David R. Brower immigration political problem 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 apollo ocean moon I believe in the rights of creatures other than man. David R. Brower rights men believe 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 growth energy years Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. David R. Brower vote realizing thousand 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 waste safe matter 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 responsibility hands thinking Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? David R. Brower garbage land moving People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite. David R. Brower opposites people years You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done. David R. Brower environmental rivers advice Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem. David R. Brower problem perfect people Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning. David R. Brower environmental mind rivers The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope. David R. Brower global-warming climate-change goal 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 disability clubs pressure 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 dollars risk order Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. David R. Brower risk doors people I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. David R. Brower league writing hands 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 beautiful people needs
