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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

Natural gas is the future. It is here.

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

I believe that it is impossible to stop people from using the fossil fuels, so we need to develop technologies which allow us to use them without creating environmental havoc on the planet.

You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.