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I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
— James Lovelock
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
— James Lovelock
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.
— James Lovelock
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
— James Lovelock
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.
— James Lovelock
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.
— James Lovelock
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
— James Lovelock
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
— James Lovelock
We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science
— James Lovelock
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
— James Lovelock
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.
— James Lovelock
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
— James Lovelock
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
— James Lovelock
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.
— James Lovelock
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.
— James Lovelock
Let's make hay while it lasts.
— James Lovelock
For each of our actions there are only consequences.
— James Lovelock
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.
— James Lovelock
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
— James Lovelock
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.
— James Lovelock
The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.
— James Lovelock
The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.
— James Lovelock
Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.
— James Lovelock
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
— James Lovelock
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.
— James Lovelock
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
— James Lovelock
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
— James Lovelock
So-called 'sustainable development' ... is meaningless drivel.
— James Lovelock
Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.
— James Lovelock
Science always uses metaphor.
— James Lovelock
The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.
— James E. Lovelock
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
— James Lovelock
Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.
— James Lovelock
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.
— James Lovelock
