We'd Never Have Got A Chance To

I'm Not Religious, But I Put It That Way Because I Feel So Strongly. It's The One Thing You Do Not Ever Do. You've Got To Have Standards.

If It Hadn't Been For The Cold War, Neither Russia Nor America Would Have Been Sending People Into Space.

There Aren't Just Bad People That Commit Genocide; We Are All Capable Of It. It's Our Evolutionary History.

I Don't Think We're Yet Evolved To The Point Where We're Clever Enough To Handle A Complex A Situation As Climate Change. The Inertia Of Humans Is So Huge That You Can't Really Do Anything Meaningful.

I Know That To Personalize The Earth System As Gaia, As I Have Often Done And Continue To Do In This Book, Irritates The Scientifically Correct, But I Am Unrepentant Because Metaphors Are More Than Ever Needed For A Widespread Comprehension Of The True Nature Of The Earth And An Understanding Of The Lethal Dangers That Lie Ahead.