James Lovelock Quotes

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• We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches,…
• I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold…
• The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.
• Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
• We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science
• What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my…
• Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the…
• The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living…
• The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my…
• No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable…
• We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all…
• I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded…
• The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas…
• The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books –…
• The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.
• I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got…
• Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.
• We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few…
• The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books –…
• Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words…

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