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James Lovelock Quote: “The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.”

51. “The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “You mustn’t take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.”

52. “You mustn’t take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “I’m not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.”

53. “I’m not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn’t mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don’t believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.”

55. “I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn’t mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don’t believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “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.”

56. “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.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “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;.”

59. “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;.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.”

60. “No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.”

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

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James Lovelock Quote: “Civilization in its present form hasn’t got long.”

62. “Civilization in its present form hasn’t got long.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.”

63. “Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “As Newton found long ago, logical thinking does not work with dynamic systems, things that change over the course of time. Quite simply, you cannot explain the working of something alive by cause-and-effect logic. Most of us, especially women, have known this all along.”

65. “As Newton found long ago, logical thinking does not work with dynamic systems, things that change over the course of time. Quite simply, you cannot explain the working of something alive by cause-and-effect logic. Most of us, especially women, have known this all along.”

— James Lovelock

James Lovelock Quote: “The experience of watching your garden grow gives you some idea of how future AI systems will feel when observing human life.”

66. “The experience of watching your garden grow gives you some idea of how future AI systems will feel when observing human life.”

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James Lovelock Quote: “The pioneer and would-be spacefarer Elon Musk said he would like to die on Mars, though not on impact. Martian conditions suggest death on impact might be preferable.”

67. “The pioneer and would-be spacefarer Elon Musk said he would like to die on Mars, though not on impact. Martian conditions suggest death on impact might be preferable.”

— James Lovelock

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