James Lovelock quotes - page 2

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air. (James Lovelock)
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. View quote
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There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. View quote
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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. View quote
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. View quote
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Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long. View quote
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One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil. View quote
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I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. View quote
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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. View quote
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You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job. View quote
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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. (James Lovelock)
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all. View quote
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Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. View quote
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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. View quote
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You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future. View quote
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This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief. View quote
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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. View quote
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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. View quote
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Science always uses metaphor. (James Lovelock)
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. View quote
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I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem. View quote
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