A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

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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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I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

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You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

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China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

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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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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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Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

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This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

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All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

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