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James Lovelock Quotes: Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
         

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.


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NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.



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



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

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



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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 looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.



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Let's make hay while it lasts.



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Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.



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



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I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.



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