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 consumptioncontinuecool share on social
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 clubconservationearth Change image and share on social
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. David R. Brower absolutelydooreconomy Change image and share on social
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. David R. Brower amountapplyback share on social
Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom. David R. Brower absolutelyagoatom Change image and share on social
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. David R. Brower abysscloseedge Change image and share on social
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 beginbringcountry Change image and share on social
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 atombeautifuldam Change image and share on social
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. David R. Brower capabilitycomplicatecontrol Change image and share on social
