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Climate Quotes by James Lovelock
- 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…
- Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
- 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 problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books –…
- 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 –…
- By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.
- Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the…
- Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.
- 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…
- Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots…
- The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
- The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
- 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…
- 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. The inertia of…
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- Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to… — Rajneesh
- There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. — David Attenborough
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how… — Barack Obama