newscientist.com - 1/24/2009
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What he hasn't debunked are at-the-source solutions like efficiency and alternative energy (other than the wind power that he feels is a threat to his British countryside). He just thinks those won't be enough at this point. Although I agree with some of what Lovelock has said, I also wonder ...
sciam.com - 1/28/2009
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sciam.com —
Scientific American: Most of us are aware that
our cars, our coal-generated electric power and even our...
cement factories adversely affect the environment. Until recently, however, the foods we eat had gotten a pass in the discussion. Yet according to ...
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How meat contributes to global warming
businessgreen.com - 1/22/2009
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Business Green: A new breed of carbon capture
technologies capable of turning CO2 emissions into cement could...
soon provide a cost effective alternative to high profile, but as yet unproven, carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems, according to one of ...
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Khosla shuns CCS in favour of coal-to-cement
newscientist.com - 1/23/2009
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With his 90th birthday in July, a trip
into space scheduled for later in the year and...
a new book out next month, 2009 promises to be an exciting time for James Lovelock . But the originator of the Gaia theory, which describes Earth as a ...
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One last chance to save mankind - environment - 23 ...
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DrumBeat: January 24, 2009
The Oil Drum —
... to pay for eco damage
GETTING oil and gas companies to contain the harm they do to the environment just got a little easier.
Companies are sometimes asked to preserve pristine land to compensate for the damage their operations do - both directly and through the roads, houses and towns that spring up nearby. This poses a problem because the companies can easily claim credit for protecting land their activities would never have damaged anyway.
James Lovelock: One last chance to save mankind
There is one way we could save ...
James Lovelock on Saving Ourselves from Climate Change: “Not a Hope in Hell”
Chelsea Green —
... his predictions would give optimists nightmares. Lovelock sees a gigantic self-induced cull heading for mankind within the coming century that will wipe out most of humanity. Man, is that a depressing thought. Can we do anything about it? In a word? No. Whether you agree or not, his theories deserve some consideration. So let’s take a deep breath, and for a few minutes let us consider the possibility that maybe we can’t save the world. Lovelock talks to the aptly named Gaia Vince of New Scientist to give us all a healthy dose of scientific buzz-harshing and bumming-out. PS: ...
Lovelock Warns: One Last Chance Or 8 Billion Die
Red, Green, and Blue —
... According to an interview with James Lovelock, published in the UK journal New Scientist recently, the outlook for humanity is bleak, with at least 90% of the world’s population dying before the end of the century as a direct result of climate change. This suggests that even if Obama acts at once with ...
Soil Will Save Us?
Garden Rant —
... , a fantastically prescient book our unsustainable oil- and derivatives-fueled economy, and subject of Ben McGrath's recent story in The New Yorker,"The Dystopians"--is one of the more playful thinkers I know, really optimistic in manner if not in outlook. Now, we have an interview with Jame Lovelock in New Scientist . He is the author of the Gaia theory, which, as far as I have grasped it from cursory non-study, argues that the earth behaves as one largely self-regulating organism, in which life contributes to the conditions that promote life. Lovelock tells New ...
Woodchips With Everything
Permaculture Research Institute of Australia —
... 2. Chris Goodall, 2008. Ten Technologies to Save the Planet. GreenProfile, London. 3. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-last-chance-to-save-mankind.html?full=true 4. James Hansen et al, 2008. Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim? ...
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