Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. - James Lovelock
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
- James Lovelock
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy. - James Lovelock
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. - James Lovelock
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. - James Lovelock
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
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
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.
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity cap… - James Lovelock
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity cap…
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. - James Lovelock
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. - James Lovelock
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.
The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it… - James Lovelock
The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it…
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