While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
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.
The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.
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.
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.
Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
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.
The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.
Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.
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.
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.
Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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