124 Quotes by James Lovelock

There aren’t just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It’s our evolutionary history.

Civilization in its present form hasn’t got long.

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.

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.

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.

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

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can’t stand windmills at any price.

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.

Let’s make hay while it lasts.