The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.
James LovelockClimate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
James LovelockThe climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
James LovelockNo one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.
James LovelockI know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth and an understanding of the lethal dangers that lie ahead.
James Lovelock