English - Scientist | July 26, 1919 -
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
James Lovelock
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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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An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
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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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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.
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We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.
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So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.
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One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
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Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
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I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
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Let's make hay while it lasts.
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The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
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