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Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

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I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

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Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

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It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

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The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

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Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

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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.

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

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

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So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: July 26th, 1919

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