David Brower
(1912-2000)

American Environmentalist
Co-Founder Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth,
Earth Island Institute

1977 Sierra Club John Muir Award
1998 Blue Planet Prize

birthdate: July 1
birthplace:
Berkeley, California

QUOTES

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

There is no business to be done on a dead planet.

* "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?"

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.

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