During a recent interview, 90 year old James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia Theory, was asked "Do you think we'll survive the coming global warming?" Here is his reply:
"I'm an optimistic pessimist. I think it's wrong to assume we'll survive 2 °C of warming: there are already too many people on Earth. At 4 °C we could not survive with even one-tenth of our current population. The reason is we would not find enough food, unless we synthesised it. Because of this, the cull during this century is going to be huge, up to 90 per cent. The number of people remaining at the end of the century will probably be a billion or less. It has happened before: between the ice ages there were bottlenecks when there were only 2000 people left. It's happening again.
"I don't think humans react fast enough or are clever enough to handle what's coming up. Kyoto was 11 years ago. Virtually nothing's been done except endless talk and meetings."
To read the full interview in New Scientist, click on the title of this post.
Monday, January 26, 2009
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3 comments:
i'm very interest with your information,
i've a lot of article about global warming
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Even small changes in temperature cause big changes in the weather. Will not reduce the species on Mother Earth by 90% as past changes have done. But will cause enough upset that civil unrest will be prevalent. Afraid our grandchildren will see traumatic times. Another Hitler or Napoleon? Mark my words, you unbelievers, the revolution is at hand.
Thank you for sharing the interview with Mr. Lovelock. He has some interesting ideas ... a little scary ... but interesting.
I've "stumbled" both your article and his complete interview.
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