Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

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.

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

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.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.