, a research fellow at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies and adviser to the Blue/Green Working Group, a coalition of labor and environmental leaders


NUKES AS TERRORISTS TARGETS
'After September 11, we are surely not so dumb as to build more Trojan horses in our country. The danger of penetration into a nuclear reactor-which is difficult but not impossible-is so horrendous that we've got to be out of our minds to build more nuclear power plants. And I say this as a person who's had as much experience with nuclear power as anyone in this country.'
-David Freeman


HOW MUCH LONGER CAN OVERCONSUMPTION GO ON?
'I question whether technological growth can keep us ahead of the consumption wolf-particularly if we're trying to export a consumption-based economy to the whole world. At some point we need to say enough is enough.'
-Kurt Yeager


HOW PUBLIC POLICIES PROP UP DIRTY ENERGY
'The key to rapidly moving from fossil-fuel dependency to renewable energy resources is leveling the economic playing field. Either we eliminate the subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear [power] or we do something like extend the wind-production tax credit. We need to get the market to tell the ecological truth.'
-Lester Brown

Marilyn Berlin Snell is writer/editor at Sierra, the Sierra Club's magazine. Excerpted from Sierra (July/August 2002). Subscriptions: $15/yr. (6 issues) from Box 52968, Boulder, CO 80328. The complete text can also be found online at www.sierraclub.org/powerlunch.

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