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James Lovelock Quotes: What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.
         

What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.


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NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.



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Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.



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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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