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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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I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
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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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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.
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
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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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