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James Lovelock Quotes: Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.
         

Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.


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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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