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It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
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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.
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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
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We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.
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We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
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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.'
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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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