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James Lovelock
July 26, 1919 -
Nationality: English
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: English Scientist

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

   

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

   

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

   

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

   

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

   

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

   

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

   

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

   

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

   

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

   

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

   

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

   

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

   

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

   

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