James Lovelock Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

James Lovelock quotes and sayings page 2 (scientist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 51 we have.

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“For each of our actions there are only consequences.”

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

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

“Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.”

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

“I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.”