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James Lovelock: The future of life on Earth

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Is There a Future for Human Beings on Earth?

If there is an intelligent machine based oo future, they may regard humans as really rather useless and counterproductive. I's not going to put up with burning coal or oil. It'll take start using nuclear or else. You i think, many years ago, were offered a trip to space by richard branson. Yes, what happened to that? Oh, well, poor richard brownson had bad luck with his plane. There was crash with the space plane that er he was going to put me on. And i mhent that kind of thing happens in the development of new aircraft. But i think we've got a lot more fussy these days than we used to be.

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