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I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
James Lovelock
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An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
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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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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.
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Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
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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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Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
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Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
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Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
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China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
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There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
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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.
James Lovelock
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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.
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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.
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