Helen Caldicott Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company
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“If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.”
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“You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : "Weekend Booking: Helen Caldicott" by John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. August 9, 2016.
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“Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.”
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“The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam
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“As a physician, I see the earth as a patient in the intensive care unit. We have an acute clinical crisis on our hands and must take urgent action. My prescription for survival is that the American people rise up as they did in the 1980s, when 80 percent of Americans supported the nuclear weapons freeze.”
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“The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.”
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“in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company
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“as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
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“I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.”
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“Terrorists do not actually need nuclear weapons. They have been conveniently supplied with 103 nuclear power plants scattered throughout the United States (438 of these deadly facilities exist throughout the world). A planned meltdown at one of these facilities would make the World Trade Center attacks seem like child's play. The massive concrete containers protecting the reactors are not strong enough to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott (2013). “The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex”, p.12, The New Press
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“The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.”
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“Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth". Book by Helen Caldicott, 2009.
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“The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power ...”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.236, W. W. Norton & Company
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“The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in the human gene pool that following generations might not be recognizable as human beings.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott (1980). “Nuclear madness: what you can do”
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“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.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : "Prescription for Survival". A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott, www.democracynow.org. March 30, 2011.
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“Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.”
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“We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott (1986). “Missile envy: the arms race and nuclear war”
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“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.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam
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“Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro’s done is superb.”
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“It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and Updated)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company
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“On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.”
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“Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But , as the US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has concluded, no dose of radiation is safe, however small, including background radiation; exposure is cumulative and adds to an individual's risk of developing cancer.”
-- Helen CaldicottSource : "How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation" by Helen Caldicott, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.
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