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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…
• I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put…
• 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…
• Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in…
• The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting…
• The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect…
• No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input…
• We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd…
• I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.…

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