As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it's an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that's true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia.