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" Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. "

James Lovelock

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James Lovelock

Sustainable Development

Development

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" I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. "