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Helen Caldicott

Helen Mary Caldicott (born 7 August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general.

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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.

Country, Lie, Lying, Power, Profit

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.

American, Clinical, Hands, People, Survival

The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards.

Become, Children, Home, Honor, Let, Needless

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

Change, Hippie, Life, Planet, Planets, Priorities

Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro’s done is superb.

Country, Cuba, Done

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.

Bars, Beer, Cans, Run, Running, Way

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

Five, Mere, Population, Toxic, Toxic Waste, United States

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.

Clue, Connect, Earth, Nature, Unless

I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.

Environment, Plastic, Pollution, Takeover, Witnessed, World

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.

Future, Optimist, Optimistic, Pessimistic, Thinking

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.

Eye, Eyes, Ozone, Systems, Vision

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

Appreciation, Earth, Members, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching

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.

Causes, Following, Gene, Generations, War, Would Be

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.

Academy, Cancer, Developing, Dose, Radiation, Risk

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Aroused, Inspirational, Power, Public Opinion, Unbeatable

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.

Appropriate, Killed, Running, Work, World

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

United States, Culture, World, Wanting, Life, American