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All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.

James Lovelock

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

James Lovelock

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

James Lovelock

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

James Lovelock

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

James Lovelock

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

James Lovelock

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

James Lovelock

Let's make hay while it lasts.

James Lovelock

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

James Lovelock

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

James Lovelock

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

James Lovelock

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.

James Lovelock

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

James Lovelock

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

James Lovelock

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

James Lovelock

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

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

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

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

James Lovelock

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

James Lovelock

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

James Lovelock

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

James Lovelock

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

James Lovelock

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

James Lovelock

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

James Lovelock

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

James Lovelock

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

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

James Lovelock

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

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

James Lovelock

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

James Lovelock

Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.

James Lovelock

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

James Lovelock

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.

James Lovelock

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

James Lovelock

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

James Lovelock