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“A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.”
“When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.”
“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.”
“We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.”
“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.”
“It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.”
“What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?”
“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.”
“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.'”
“Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.”
“Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.”
“Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.”
“Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.”
“'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.”
“I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.”