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
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.
if-there-is-a-god scientist certainty
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
nuclear campaigns surprise
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
earth doe purpose
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
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.