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Danh ngôn của David R. Brower (Sứ mệnh: 4)

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
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.
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
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.
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.