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I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
James Lovelock
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James Lovelock
Age: 105
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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.
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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.
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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 almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.
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Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
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I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
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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.
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One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.
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So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.
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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.
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We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.
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You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.
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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. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.
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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.
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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 in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.
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I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.
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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 one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.
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I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
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Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.
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