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

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

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.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

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.