“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.” KnowsWayJobsPoliticianNegative Author:James Lovelock
“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.” WorldWayWarCountryNumbersScientistTinyWar Of The WorldsProportionWorld War Ii Author:James Lovelock
“Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.” WayDealsDemocracyMankindThreatClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingUrgent 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
“I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.” ThinkingWorldWayGivingHumansStillsCareEarthWiseOur LivesReadyConceptsEvidenceAliensRejectsOur WorldDiverseEntityTribesInheritanceLiving ThingsWhalesWilsonBiologistBacteriaRest Of LifeCarnivores Author:James Lovelock
“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.” WayFeelsReligiousOne ThingStandards Author:James Lovelock
“Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.” WayHumansEarthCellsBehaveOrganismsEugenicsTumorsEnviromentalEnviroment 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
