David Brower

David Brower David Ross Brower (July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was an American environmentalism environmentalist, mountain climber, author, and founder of Friends of the Earth (1969), Earth Island Institute (1982), and the University of California, Davis#Research centers and laboratories John Muir Institute of the Environment (1997), From 1952 to 1969, he served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Sierra Club. In 2009 the David Brower Center was opened. Quotes While breakfast is cooking, any garbage, including cans, should be burned. Heat removes the protective coating from the cans and hastens their rusting, simplifies smashing them and destroys odors which are tempting to bears et al. The cans may then be (a) placed in a disposal bag if one exists or (b) far preferable, be carried away in your own knapsack or kyack back to the road for later disposal. Going Light, with Backpack Or Burro Sierra Club 1968 33 (1st part of quote; last part of quote; 152 pages I think the most pressing issue is the very rapid and acceleratingly speedy Biodiversity loss loss of biodiversity on our planet. ... that's the big tragedy. David Brower, father of the environmental movement, interviewed on Earth Network 1992 February 15, 2021 Underground News Reboot, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew8kDP3X7NQ&t=167s (quote at 2:47 of 41:20 in video) ... I am very anxious to save the national parks from the National Park Service. I am anxious to save the forests from the United States Forest Service Forest Service. It would be nice if we had a Forest Service. Instead, we have a Lumber timber service. I have had that bias since 1938. I think that it would be helpful if we could switch the timber operations into the Department of Commerce and reinstate the Forest Service to be concerned with the entire forest. ... The Forest Service has control over a great deal of wilderness, and it is more concerned about (keeping out) human feet than how many bulldozers, chainsaws, and roads are in it. That’s because it is a timber service. ...We’ve lost a huge amount of forests in this country and globally. Forests are, in large part, the way the earth breathes. We have to become aware of what the wild forest is doing for us: It is releasing oxygen, storing carbon dioxide, taking care of water and soil and habitat, and giving us beauty. The marketplace doesn’t count any of those things into its thinking. We must admire and credit nature’s services.Gretchen Daily, who teaches at Stanford, wrote a book called Gretchen Daily#Nature's Services Nature’s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems, which everyone should read. The gist of the book comes from a separate economics study, which says that something like 34 trillion dollars of nature’s services are used every year. There is no program to pay nature back. Before too long, nature will say your credit is no damn good. That is the part they need to remember about wilderness. as quoted by David Kupfer in September 2000 interview: David Brower's Last Interview. Activist and former backpacker David Brower reflects on his life in the political trenches and on the trails April 2001 Conservation News, backpacker.com https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/david-brower-s-last-interview/ Quotes about David Brouwer In 1912, the year David Brower was born, the world was a vastly different place, and nature still held dominion in most parts of California, including his hometown of Berkeley, California Berkeley. Back then, the town's population was just over forty thousand. Today, it's more than 110,000. ... During that same time, the U.S. population grew from 92 million to something over 300 million. California's population rose fastest: from 2.3 million to 37 million. Brower often bemoaned this rapid population rise and argued that it must be slowed and eventually reversed in order to avoid running out of air, water, and the other necessities of life—and to leave some space for the other beings that share the planet with us. "How dense can people be?" was one his many quips, this one later turned into a lapel button. Tom Turner, David Brower: The Making of the Environmental Movement University of California Press 2015 9780520278363 https://books.google.com/books?id=TNUkDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 9 (320 pages) External links David Brower Legacy at Earth Island Institute website. “Brower, David Ross (1912 – 2000) American Environmentalist and Conservationist” by Lawrence Biskowski, Encyclopedia.com. Online guide to the David Ross Brower Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Obituary: David Brower by Christopher Reed, The Guardian, 7 November 2000. Category:1912 births Category:2000 deaths Category:Activists from California Category:Editors from the United States Category:Environmentalists from the United States Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States