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
nuclear global-warming halt
Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.
morning thinking imagination
What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my mind in 3D, as a kind of construct. Then I do experiments with the image...sort of rotate it, and say, 'Well what'll happen if one does this?' And by the time I get up for breakfast I can usually go to the bench and make a string and sealing wax model that works straight off, because I've done most of the experiments already.
oil pounds coal
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
war america space
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
engineering worry mutation
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
florida long gone
Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
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.
hay lasts
Let's make hay while it lasts.
civilization long form
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
running earth planets
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.
clever viruses host
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
earth doe purpose
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
world alarmists millennium
The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.
littles individual evidence
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.