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James Lovelock

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I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.


— James Lovelock


#even #going #happen #i #i do

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.


— James Lovelock


#got #i #paying #personal #price

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.


— James Lovelock


#been #cold #cold war #hadn #into

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.


— James Lovelock


#any #around #been #come #evolution

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.


— James Lovelock


#between #big #cheaper #deflect #earth

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.


— James Lovelock


#coal #million #oil #pound #pounds

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.


— James Lovelock


#desert #easier #forest #much #sadly

Science always uses metaphor.


— James Lovelock


#metaphor #science #uses

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


— James Lovelock


#bad people #capable #commit #evolutionary #genocide

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.


— James Lovelock


#history #improved #individual #intelligence #little






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He found a concentration of 60 parts per trillion of CFC-11 over Ireland and in a partially self-funded research expedition in 1972 went on to measure the concentration of CFC-11 from the northern hemisphere to the Antarctic aboard the research vessel RRS Shackleton. In 2005 against the backdrop of renewed UK government interest in nuclear power Lovelock again publicly announced his support for nuclear energy stating "I am a Green and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy". One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife.

James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRS Ph. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our planet healthy by controlling the chemical and physical environment.

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