Independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist
Merited a place in Time magazines Special Issue "Heroes of the Environment" (Leaders & Visionaries section) with a tribute penned by Oliver Morton, chief news and feature editor of "Nature" (Issue October 29, 2007).
He was awarded the CBE before being awarded the CH (Companion of Honour) in the 2003 Queens New Years Honours List for his services to Global Environmental Science.
He is an environmental scientist whos Gaia Theory sees the Earth as a living organism.
He was elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Science.
(May 2009) Launceston, Cornwall, England
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. .
