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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
David R. Brower
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David R. Brower
Age: 88 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 1
Died: 2000
Died: November 5
Cinematographer
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Mountaineer
Ski Mountaineer
Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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