David R. Brower Quotes

The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if we don't clean it up.

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?

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

I don’t want the West to be used as the place where we store the nation’s nuclear waste.

If they [the Federal government] can't handle the [toxic] waste, they shouldn't generate it.

We're not going to allow Virginia to become a trash depository for New York or anyplace else.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

Unmanageable waste has turned into a worldwide crisis. No matter how much local authorities do, no matter the level of public cooperation, no matter how much is recycled, the problem continues to grow.

India's waste problem is gigantic, and with its economy growing steadily, it will be compounded manifold.

The House has repeatedly had overwhelming votes in support of continuing the Yucca Mountain repository.

I will continue to be a voice for Nevadans in the Senate, opposing Yucca Mountain and working to identify viable alternatives for long-term repositories in areas that are proven safe and whose communities consent to that storage.

The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of cyanide, which is used in the recovery of microscopic particles of gold from the waste tailings of copper mines.

E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly.

This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

People don't like getting dirty or living in an environment that's been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.

The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.