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Science always uses metaphor.
Let's make hay while it lasts.
Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
For each of our actions there are only consequences.
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.
The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.
So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.
Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.
I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.
We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.
The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.
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.
A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.
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.
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.
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.
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.