David R. Brower Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.”

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

“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.”

“We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.”

“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.”

“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.”