Quotes from Environmentalists

Rob at Gut Rumbles links to this great list of quotes from well-known Environmentalists. Here are four that caught my eye:

• We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion�guilt-free at last!
  — Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue)
  

  If you ask me, it�d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won�t give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.

  — Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth�Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22
  

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

  — Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
  

  There are ominous signs that the earth�s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production�with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon� The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it.

  — Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

This last one is especially rich -- remember the global ice age that was breathing down our necks unless we did something really really soon?