James Lovelock
James Lovelock
James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRSis an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist who lives in Devon, England. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 July 1919
couple reality thinking
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 of examples.
stars fall long-ago
Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.
civilization long form
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
hay lasts
Let's make hay while it lasts.
oil nuclear rivals
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
america revolution regimes
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
america global-warming problem
Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.
florida long gone
Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
engineering worry mutation
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
years climate lifetime
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 year.
second-guessing
You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.
life rocks cells
There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.
religious way standards
I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
nuclear global-warming halt
Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.