The climate and the chemical properties of the Earth now and throughout its history seem always to have been optimal for life. For this to have happe… - James Lovelock

Life has to be a planetary phenomenon. You could no more have a partially occupied planet than you could half a cat or half a dog.

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.

In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natural process. If something as intricate as life can assemble by accident, we need not marvel at the fission reactor, a relatively simple contraption, doing likewise.