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Lovelock still makes me look like Paula Abdul, warns climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age
Climate Progress —
... is way, way too optimistic.”) He’s got a new piece in the UK’s Guardian, which I’ll reprint below. While I don’t think this scenario is how things will play out — I don’t think we face a Mad Max future — the worst-case is obviously much worse than what I have laid out, so I do think it worthwhile to have someone describe a full-tilt worst-case scenario every so often other than in the movies:
Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age ...
Climate bill - June 30
Energy Bulletin - —
... Georgia that climate change is nothing but a “hoax” that has been “perpetrated out of the scientific community.” I’d call this a crazy conspiracy theory, but doing so would actually be unfair to crazy conspiracy theorists. After all, to believe that global warming is a hoax you have to believe in a vast cabal consisting of thousands of scientists — a cabal so powerful that it has managed to create false records on everything from global temperatures to Arctic sea ice. (28 June 2009) Lovelock: We need a climate change 'Churchill' James Lovelock, Conservation magazine via ...
Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age
Peak Oil News —
... the U.K., we have a chance of surviving and even of living well. For that to be possible, we have to make our lifeboats seaworthy now. Back in May 1940, we in the UK awoke to find facing us across the Channel a wholly hostile continental force about to invade. We were alone without an effective ally but fortunate to have a new leader, Winston Churchill, whose moving words stirred the whole nation from its lethargy: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." Guardian "
Deep thought - July 1
Energy Bulletin - —
... clone him quick and get him up and running on the double. Have Armani figure out an appropriate wardrobe for the 21st century. We are in desperate need of a leader who has the glandular fortitude to turn things around in a hurry. To pry millions of fingers off the ‘self-destruct' button here on spaceship earth. Tom Peifer is an ecological land use consultant with 12 years experience in Guanacaste. (25 June 2009, but originally published in 2007) James Lovelock just wrote a plea, We need a climate change 'Churchill' . But EB reader Tom Peifer beat him to the punch with this ...
A Hot Future like a Sci-Fi Disaster Movie
FUTURISM NOW —
... things will play out — I don’t think we face a Mad Max future — the worst-case is obviously much worse than what I have laid out, so I do think it worthwhile to have someone describe a full-tilt worst-case scenario every so often other than in the movies”. I disagree. I think the future will probably be much worse than most movies if we stick with the plan our politicans come up with. We need scientists to come up with plans for us, not career politicians.
Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age ...
