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James Lovelock

(1919–2022) Chemist United Kingdom

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James Lovelock was a chemist from the United Kingdom, best known for Gaia.

Quick Facts About James Lovelock

Born: July 26, 1919
Died: July 26, 2022
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Chemist
Notable works: Gaia
Known for: Gaia hypothesis, electron capture detector

About James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society Companion of Honour honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Medal honorary doctor of the University of Kent Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences Wollaston Medal

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Order of the Companions of Honour International Nonino Prize Blue Planet Prize Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fonseca Prize Volvo Environment Prize

Quotes by James Lovelock

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living…

Arctic

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“City wisdom became almost entirely centered on the problems of human relationships, in contrast to the wisdom of any natural tribal group,…

Human relationship

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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…

Jobs

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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…

Company

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If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely…

Built

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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.

Climate

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“When we burn fossil fuel for energy we are, in qualitative terms, doing nothing more wrong than burning wood. Our wrongdoing, if…

Environmentalism

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I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change.…

Change

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By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

Arctic

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The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed…

Alarmists

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By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a…

Atlanta

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“One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of…

Environmentalism

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Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.

America

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Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what…

Almost

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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…

Certainty

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Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with…

Antithesis

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Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

Doe

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I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever…

Feels

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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…

Agree

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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

America

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We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

Emotion

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“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never…

Astronomy

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“Gaia is a thin spherical shell of matter that surrounds the incandescent interior; it begins where the crustal rocks meet the magma…

Environmentalism

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

Development

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We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die…

Arctic

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