I Suspect Any Worries About Genetic Engineering

Perhaps The Single Most Important Thing That We Can Do To Undo The Harm We Have Done Is To Fix Firmly In Our Minds The Thought: The Earth Is Alive.

One Thing That Being A Scientist Has Taught Me Is That You Can Never Be Certain About Anything. You Never Know The Truth. You Can Only Approach It And Hope To Get A Bit Nearer To It Each Time. You Iterate Towards The Truth. You Don't Know It.

The World Has Not Warmed Up Very Much Since The Millennium.

I Think That We Reject The Evidence That Our World Is Changing Because We Are Still, As That Wonderfully Wise Biologist E. O. Wilson Reminded Us, Tribal Carnivores. We Are Programmed By Our Inheritance To See Other Living Things As Mainly Something To Eat, And We Care More About Our National Tribe Than Anything Else. We Will Even Give Our Lives For It And Are Quite Ready To Kill Other Humans In The Cruellest Of Ways For The Good Of Our Tribe. We Still Find Alien The Concept That We And The Rest Of Life, From Bacteria To Whales, Are Parts Of The Much Larger And Diverse Entity, The Living Earth.

The Climate Is Doing Its Usual Tricks. There's Nothing Much Really Happening Yet. We Were Supposed To Be Halfway Toward A Frying World Now.