James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion

In case the name “James Lovelock” isn’t immediately familiar, he’s the feller who came up with the “Gaia Hypothesis” that the thin film of organic scum, water, oxygen and nitrogen on the surface of Earth is a self-regulating system, effectively a single organism. This has been an important feature of the environmentalist movement for many years now.

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, 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.