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“We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.”
 
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Name:   David R. Brower
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Jul 1, 1912
 
Date of Death:   Nov 5,  2000
 
Profession:   Environmentalist
 
 
 
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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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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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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 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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