From an interview I read a couple of years ago, this part stuck out (paraphrased, from memory). The interviewer asked something like "Are you optimistic about

From an interview I read a couple of years ago, this part stuck out (paraphrased, from memory). The interviewer asked something like "Are you optimistic about human survival?" and Lovelock's reply was, roughly - "Oh yes, I am optimistic. I mean, there might be a bottleneck of the population down to a few thousands, but long term we will survive". Talk about the large-scale view.