A biography for James Lovelockhasn’t been written yet.
“One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.”
“An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.”
“Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.”
“You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.”
“Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.”
“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.”
“For each of our actions there are only consequences.”
“If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.”
“Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.”
“Let's make hay while it lasts.”
“I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.”
“So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.”
“Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.”
“I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.”
“I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.”
“This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.”
“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.”
“There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.”
“Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.”
“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.”