Gaia Scientist Lovelock Predicts Planetary Wipeout

by Jeremy Lovell - November 28th, 2006 - Reuters U.K.

James Lovelock, who angered climate scientists with his Gaia theory of a living planet and then alienated environmentalists by backing nuclear power, said a traumatised earth might only be able to support less than a tenth of it's 6 billion people.

"We are not all doomed. An awful lot of people will die, but I don't see the species dying out," he told a news conference. "A hot earth couldn't support much over 500 million."

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Lovelock said temperature rises of up to 8C were already built in and while efforts to curb it were morally commendable, they were wasted.

In other words, we are doomed. However the enviromentalists are furious because Lovelock doesn't blame the United States. His view, "China is building a coal-fired power station a week to feed rampant demand, and India's economy is likewise surging. If either suddenly decided to stop their carbon-fuelled development to lift their billions of people out of poverty they would face a revolution, yet if they continue, rising CO2 and temperatures would kill off plants and produce famine", he said.

To environmentalists this is simply unacceptable. To claim that China (a glorious socialist state) and India (another glorious socialist state) are the main cause of this impending disaster is not acceptable to the enviromental movement. Therefore Lovelock's premise is rejected . . . partially. His impending disaster theory is perfectly okay to them however he cannot be right as to the cause. The only question the enviromental movement needs an answer to is how is it the fault of America?