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A conversation with James Lovelock

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Scientist and inventor James Lovelock sitting with one of his early inventions, a homemade Gas Chromatography device, used for measuring gas and molecules present in the atmosphere, aged 94.(Photo by Nick Ansell/PA Images via Getty Images)

A long, biographical conversation with the veteran and fiercely independent British scientist, James Lovelock. This public conversation from the Adelaide Festival of Ideas moves from Lovelock's childhood in the 1920s - which was an era dominated by superstition - through to his fears about climate change and his advocacy of nuclear power.

Originally broadcast on 12/7/2007.

Guest:

James Lovelock, British independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist.

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