Quotes About Lovelock

For the same energy output as from coal or oil, methane combustion releases only half as much carbon dioxide. This implies that powering a nation entirely by gas reduces emissions of carbon dioxide by half.

almost never mentioned by the media, no one was killed by the Fukushima accident and no one has subsequently died as a result of it, unless we add in the suicides of those driven from their homes by an overzealous application of radiation safety rules.

caused Gaia's regulation system to fail would lead to a hot and dead Earth

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

Also, Lovelock's radical idea—pay attention to the atmosphere and look for drastic departures from the expected mixture of gases—now forms the cornerstone of our life-detection strategies.

A new ecosystem approach—on an earthwide scale—is the Gaia hypothesis (Lovelock 1988). Whereas

In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess.

The verdict was obvious: CFCs were staying in the atmosphere, and because of their inertia nearly their entire post-1930 output was accumulating aloft. But did the presence of these compounds, as Lovelock's group concluded, pose "no conceivable hazard" because they did "not disturb the environment"—or could their accumulation have undesirable consequences?

deeply deplored by many Greens—that one of the first advocates of ecology, James Lovelock, the father of the "Gaia" model, has recently admitted, albeit reluctantly, that the energy requirements of the world will not be met without nuclear power.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.