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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:11 |
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"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."
— Ralph Nader |
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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:16 |
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"There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist." -- Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), 1992
"The most intolerable reactor of all may be one which comes successfully to the end of its planned life having produced mountains of radioactive waste for which there is no disposal safe from earthquake damage or sabotage." -- A. Stanley Thompson (Nuclear Physicist)
"Nuclear war must be the most carefully avoided topic of general significance in the contemporary world. People are not curious about the details." -- Paul Brians
"Nuclear power is not a solution for climate change.
It is a cynical gambit on the part of the global nuclear power industry to save itself from being phased out.
In addition to the risk of catastrophic accidents, nuclear power is hazardous because of pollution from day-to-day operations.
All stages of the nuclear fuel chain, including uranium mining, processing, refining, fuel fabrication, reactor operations and nuclear waste handling, emit radioactive, carcinogenic pollutants."
Irene Kock of the Nuclear Awareness Project |
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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:13 |
Great quotes:
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brains by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully sufice." Albert Einstein
To put it in plain English, these plants are unnecessary, obsolete, technically flawed economic turkeys. Michael Mariotte of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service (NIRS)
"If it weren't for people like you, we'd still be building nuclear power plants" US President George Bush in response to a US activist who stormed his press conference to ask "what makes nuclear power plants safe after flying them over the Atlantic ocean?"
I look out at you and I think of my comrades... people that were great movement organizers. You know some of their names,and many other you dont know. They risked not just their careers, marriage plans, and ostracism from their family, but their lives. They faced mobs with chains and brass knuckles, the clubs of police, the dirty tricks and infiltrations of the FBI... They had pressure put on their families. They were prepared for all this from the moment they decided to to against the grain and take on the powers that be. Abbie Hoffman
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.
"I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Because I have seen the mountaintop... I may not get to the promised land with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will." Martin Luther King Jr.
"But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we mush not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Indeed, unless we have become a part of humanity, we cannot even faintly understand the just indignation that accumulates in a human soul, the burning , surging passion that makes the storm inevitable." Emma Goldman
"It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear." Emma Goldman
"So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe." Emma Goldman
"In the sixties we always made decisions by consensus. By 1970, when you had 15 people show up and three were FBI agents and six were schizophrenics, universal agreement was getting to be a problem." Abbie Hoffman
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:13 |
"Give me cancer 50 million times, but please don't give it to my children,"
Tour de France winning cyclist and cancer survivor, Lance Armstrong in his book "Every Second Counts". This thought after sitting with a child in a cancer unit. |
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Posted by Mpho Mohale
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:11 |
Degrade the environment and let it kill you, protect it and let it protect you.
Mpho |
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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:10 |
"We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society."
Albert Einstein, Scientist |
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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:09 |
"The environmental movement should also be a human rights movement!"
Paul Hawken - Politics of Sustainability |
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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:09 |
Until man duplicates a blade of grass,
Nature can laugh at his so-called
scientific knowledge - John Denver |
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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:07 |
"...We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect..."
Aldo Leopold (1886-1948), "A Sand County Almanac", 1949 |
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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:05 |
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."
- Edward O. Wilson, - The Father of Biodiversity |
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