Well, it’s official! At least, it is according the scientist, futurist and Gaia proponent James Lovelock. By the year 2100, 80 percent of the world’s population will have perished; victims of climate change, or in Gaian terms, the revenge of the planet. He proposes that our current obsession with sustainability, banning plastic bags, Kyoto agreements, recycling, energy saving, wind and wave power, carbon footprints and other attempts to curtail our fate is just too late.
We have gone too far, too quickly already.
I remember going to a press conference to report a fight back by the plastics industry and by the Carrier Bag Consortium at which a list of doomsday scenario predictions made in the last three decades were read out and demolished one by one, They never happened.
So, will the highly regarded James Lovelock’s predictions of doom meet a similar fate?
He is a quite brilliant inventor who, amongst other things, is working on an idea to sink massive tubes into the sea bed to increase the ocean’s take up of carbon dioxide.
Shame he can’t be like my fictional creation in ‘The Kingdoms Of Time And Space’, Rufus Lane, who creates a microbe that can eat pollution and reverse climate change within two years.
If only fiction was as strange as truth.
hmmmmm.
“By the year 2100, 80 percent of the world’s population will have perished; victims of climate change, or in Gaian terms, the revenge of the planet”
don”t they include themselves as being part of the revenge of the planet?
What about all four major scientific monitors reporting the largest one year temperature drop in recorded history? They are calling for global cooling.
And where are all the critics commenting on the thickest Antarctic ice in recorded history.
Last years mean temp. was 52, humans and plant life flourish at 70 degrees.
There has not been a temperature rise in 9 years. How is that man-made global warming?
I’ve long been cynical of the green brigade. My wife is constantly on at me to put my empty beans or beer cans in the green bin and bottles in the bottle bank. Hopefully the last post is correct as I will be using that as my defense in the future.
I take the view of many that believe ‘global warming’ is an invention of the government, designed to take our minds away from spiralling crime, a health service in crisis, dreadful education and rising taxes.