Now on bbc news, hardtalk, with stephen sackur, who talks to newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. Welcome to hardtalk. I m stephen sackur. And today, i vejourneyed to the beautiful south coast of england to meet one of the past century s most influential environmentalists, james lovelock. Now, he introduced us to the gaia hypothesis the idea that our planet and all of the life on it are part of one dynamic, self regulating system. Lovelock is now 101 years old, still having big thoughts about the future of life on earth. Have we humans sown the seeds of our own destruction? james lovelock, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Yes, glad to be back! it is such a pleasure to have you back on the programme. I want to ask you for your reflections on your own famous gaia hypothesis that idea that all of life on this planet, and the planet itself, are part of one self regulating system. When you developed the idea five decades ago, you seemed quite optimistic that this system wa
Welcome to hardtalk. I m stephen sackur. And today, i vejourneyed to the beautiful south coast of england to meet one of the past century s most influential environmentalists, james lovelock. Now, he introduced us to the gaia hypothesis the idea that our planet and all of the life on it are part of one dynamic, self regulating system. Lovelock is now 101 years old, still having big thoughts about the future of life on earth. Have we humans sown the seeds of our own destruction? james lovelock, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Yes, glad to be back. It is such a pleasure to have you back on the programme. I want to ask you for your reflections on your own famous gaia hypothesis that idea that all of life on this planet and the planet itself are part of one self regulating system. When you developed the idea five decades ago, you seemed quite optimistic that this system was very durable, very resilient. Well, it had lasted three billion years that s not bad going! but are you now wor
Lines were brought down. Now on bbc news. It s hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. I m stephen sackur, and today i ve journeyed to the beautiful south coast of england to meet one of the past century s most influential environmentalists, james lovelock. Now he introduced us to the gaia hypothesis, the idea that our planet and all of the life on it are part of one dynamic, self regulating system. Lovelock is now 101 years old, still having big thoughts about the future of life on earth. Have we humans sown the seeds of our own destruction? james lovelock, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Yes, glad to be back. It is such a pleasure to have you back on the programme. I want to ask you for your reflections on your own famous gaia hypothesis, that idea that all of life on this planet and the planet itself are part of one self regulating system. When you developed the idea five decades ago, you seemed quite optimistic that this system was very durable, very resilient. Well, it had lasted three bil
Now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. I m stephen sackur, and today i ve journeyed to the beautiful south coast of england to meet one of the past century s most influential environmentalists, james lovelock. Now he introduced us to the gaia hypothesis, the idea that our planet and all of the life on it are part of one dynamic, self regulating system. Lovelock is now 101 years old, still having big thoughts about the future of life on earth. Have we humans sown the seeds of our own destruction? james lovelock, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Yes, glad to be back. It is such a pleasure to have you back on the programme. I want to ask you for your reflections on your own famous gaia hypothesis, that idea that all of life on this planet and the planet itself are part of one self regulating system. When you developed the idea five decades ago, you seemed quite optimistic that this system was very durable, very resilient. Well, it had lasted three billion years. That
It just exploded. Like, a whole mountainjust exploded in five seconds. I ve never seen anything like it. Australians know it as black summer . The months in late 2019 and early 2020, when the country saw its most intense bushfire season on record. Up to 3 billion animals were killed or displaced and huge swathes of their habitat were burnt. I m nick lazaredes, and 18 months on, i ve been travelling australia to discover how its wildlife is faring now. There s a complete removal of resources that wildlife needs. Whether they eat leaves, flower, pollen, fungi, all those resources, the foodstuff is gone. the foodstuff of the wildlife is gone. But from the ashes of catastrophe, there are also signs of hope and new beginnings for some of australia s most iconic animals. Yes, there were some casualties, but there was no species lost, and that is important. And people have to realise that it takes time for a natural habitat to re establish, for the wildlife to come back to it, but it will