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  • There is a real danger of losing our tenure on this planet altogether.

  • We've got to care about this matter of global warming

  • because if we don't do anything about it

  • there won't be anybody here.

  • During my lifetime the big change that's happened to the world

  • has been the development of machines and devices and inventions.

  • It's about time we went back

  • to taking an interest in the environment.

  • The Earth has an impossible atmosphere.

  • For it to have happened by accident,

  • the odds against it run into countless billions-to-one against.

  • So something's going on.

  • I tend to think of the Earth as alive in a sense

  • like an animal or a plant or any other living thing.

  • Gaia looks after us.

  • What happens to the planet

  • when more carbon dioxide is put in the air?

  • The Earth will get hotter.

  • It will heat up to a point

  • where no life on it of our kind will be possible.

  • Take an interest in the natural world,

  • in plants and animals and things that grow naturally.

  • Not worry too much at all about schooling.

  • The three R's yes, they're very important, but all the other stuff

  • I think could be ditched in favour

  • of a better understanding of the world.

  • There are answers of various kinds

  • but I think it needs the right sort of politics

  • to change people's thinking about these things

  • and I'd like to see these youngsters using their energies

  • and their talent in this way

  • rather than looking for some techy answer

  • because I don't think the answer's going to come that way.

  • I think we have all the things needed to stop global warming

  • we're just not using them.

There is a real danger of losing our tenure on this planet altogether.

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