James Lovelock Quotes
31 James Lovelock quotes:
"An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it."
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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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"I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen."
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"Let's make hay while it lasts."
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"Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes."
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"One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil."
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"You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future."
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"Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem."
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"The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power."
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"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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"All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it."
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"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."
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"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."
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"A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time."
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"Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average."
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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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"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive."
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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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"Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest."
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"The beehive regulates its temperature as well as we do. The hive will regulate itself to 37 degrees no matter if it is minus 20 degrees outside."
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