David R. Brower Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

  David R. Brower

  Environmental, Energy, Wrecks

• 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?

  David R. Brower

  Years, Luxury, Energy

• 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.

  David R. Brower

  Giving Up, Believe, Cutting

• 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

  Years, Growth, Energy

• At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

  David R. Brower

  Energy, Littles, Waste

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