Dr. Death and Mother Gaia: James Lovelock, godfather of the ?Gaia? theory that the Earth?s biosphere is a single living entity, has weighed in on the fate of mankind under the threat of global warming, as well as other environmental maladies. In a January 16 Independent article, Professor Lovelock wrote ?Before this century is over, billions of us will die, and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable." [...]
The bad news is that the disease that Gaia is currently suffering from (popularly known as ?mankind?) has progressed to the point of no return, a fatal illness with little hope for a cure. [...]
And never mind the fact that the last major similar work, Paul Ehrlich?s The Population Bomb, was full of dire predictions of mankind?s fate that proved false. Maybe Ehrlich really will eventually be proved right?he was just ahead of his time.
