Notable and Quotable
From an article by environmental journalist Adam Vaughan in the Guardian (U.K.), March 30:
Environmentalism has "become a religion" and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock. The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book ["Revenge of Gaia," 2006], that "it's just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer" and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms. . . .
Talking about the environmental movement, Lovelock says: "It's become a religion, and religions don't worry too much about facts." The retired scientist, who worked at the Medical Research Council, describes himself as an "old-fashioned green." Lovelock reiterated his support for fracking for shale gas, which has been strongly backed by David Cameron and the government but vigorously opposed by anti-fracking activists . . .
"The government is too frightened to use nuclear, renewables won't work—because we don't have enough sun—and we can't go on burning coal because it produces so much CO2, so that leaves fracking. It produces only a fraction of the amount of CO2 that coal does, and will make Britain secure in energy for quite a few years. We don't have much choice," he said.
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