James Lovelock

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

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NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

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So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

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I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

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I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

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Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

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Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

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Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

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The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

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One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

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An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

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I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

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Quotes by James Lovelock