If you were an artist or novelist, or a poet or somebody like that, nobody would think it odd if you worked in your own home. In science there's none… - James Lovelock

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If you were an artist or novelist, or a poet or somebody like that, nobody would think it odd if you worked in your own home. In science there's none of this at all. I'm almost the only independent scientist in Britain. Everybody else works in large institutions, universities, or industrial labs. Why should one expect scientists to work that way?

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About James Lovelock

Dr James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRS (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) was a British independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist and futurologist. He is most famous for proposing and popularizing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism (a term coined by Lynn Margulis).

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Alternative Names: James Ephraim Lovelock James E. Lovelock James E Lovelock J. E. Lovelock J E Lovelock Jim Lovelock J. Lovelock J.E. Lovelock J Lovelock Lovelock Lovelock J Lovelock J. Lovelock J. E. Lovelock JE
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Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.

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