Bacteria … have been here for three and a half billion years, and without them we have no chance whatsoever of survival. Humans are something very re… - James Lovelock

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Bacteria … have been here for three and a half billion years, and without them we have no chance whatsoever of survival. Humans are something very recent, like the froth on top of a glass of beer.

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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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Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb...Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.
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