“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.” RunningEarthPlanetsBillions Author:James Lovelock
“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsYearsHumansMayLittlesSaidSeemsEarthChanceAnimalMistakeTakenCenturyDiseaseIntelligentCommunicateBillionsStatementsEvolveOddElitesOrganisms20th CenturyAnimal Life Author:James Lovelock
“We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.” PeopleDiesCenturyFoolRemainsClimateBillionsSmokePairsBreedingArcticTolerable Author:James Lovelock
“The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.” TodayEarthMillionsEnvironmentalPopulationBillionsCanadaSurvivorArcticLatitudeIcelandScandinavia Author:James Lovelock
“Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.” WorldWayNeedsYearsFirstsEarthChristianHumanityIndividualSixYears AgoThreatBillionsLifestyleSignificantHungryHumanistUrbanGreedyBlindnessLinkedInfrastructureDomainBenignGaia Book:The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity Source: The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity
