# Quote — Rachel L Carson, The Sea Around Us

> The truth is that disposal has proceeded far more rapidly than our knowledge justifies. To dispose first and investigate later is an invitation to disaster, for once radioactive elements have been deposited at sea they are irretrievable. The mistakes that are made now are made for all time.

- Author: [Rachel L Carson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rachel-l-carson.md)
- Book: [The Sea Around Us](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rachel-l-carson/the-sea-around-us.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rachel-l-carson/the-sea-around-us/the-truth-is-that

## More from this book

> In our own lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration of climate.

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> Day by day and season by season, the ocean dominates the world's climate.

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> F or the globe as a whole, the ocean is the great regulator, the great stabilizer of temperatures. It has been described as 'a savings bank for solar energy, receiving deposits in seasons of excessive insolation and paying them back in seasons of want. Without the ocean, our world would be visited by unthinkably harsh extremes of temperature.

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