No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to … - James Lovelock

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The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

James Lovelock

No 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.

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We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2. 5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

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There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.

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The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.

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Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

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