Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

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.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.