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
There aren’t just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It’s our evolutionary history. – James Lovelock
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. – 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
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. – 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
If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. – 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
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
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. – 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
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. – 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
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. 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
