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"In 1986 Kai Lee, a professor of Environmental Sience at Williams College, was involved in plans for the long-term storage of radioactive wastes at the Hanford Reservation, a large site in central Washington State, where the United States government had produced plutonium for nuclear weapons. He spent a morning with scientists discussing how to mark a wast-site so that, even in the distant future, people would not accidentally drill for water there or otherwise bring about harmfull exposures and releases. During a break he saw several members of the Yakima Indian Nation, whose traditional lands include much of the Hanford Reservation. They had come there to talk with federal officials about another matter. The Yakima were surprised - even amused - at Kai's concern over their descendants' safety. "Don't worry," they assured him. "We'll tell them where it is."

Ur "Cradle to Cradle", Michael Braungart och William McDonough