Community | March 01, 2009 | 4 comments

Life doomed by climate change, says Gaia scientist

source: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE51O5EU20090225?sp=true

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LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change will wipe out most life on Earth by the end of this century and mankind is too late to avert catastrophe, a leading British climate scientist said...

...His apocalyptic theory foresees crop failures, drought and death on an unprecedented scale. The population of this hot, barren world could shrink from about seven billion to one billion by 2100 as people compete for ever-scarcer resources.

"It will be death on a grand scale from famine and lack of water," Lovelock told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday. "It could be a reduction to a billion (people) or less."

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Another scare-theory, or is this the only guy telling the whole truth?
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4 comments // Life doomed by climate change, says Gaia scientist

  • Jiji_Kero
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      Jiji_Kero  

    • The earth has lived through multiple mass extinctions, the only difference would be that we humans managed to do it to ourselves all by ourselves. I have no worries that the earth will live on after our existence. I just hope we REALLY are not this stupid to carry it through. What a way to end our story.

    • 2 years ago
  • jahbini
  • ampersand
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      ampersand  

    • This story appeared before and has been well commented on.
      To me, the gist of it is that Lovelock describes himself as an "optimistic pessimist" in that in his calculations, humans will reach nine billion in number during the now unstoppable eco-collapse and then die back to one billion, which is the level of a sustainable human population of the earth.
      I agree that one billion is the sustainable level for a sustainable human population of the earth.
      I'd prefer a less cataclysmic process than what he says is inevitable for most, but no doubt we'll see.

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Part truth, part scare. He wants nuclear plants dotting the planet and then talks doom. Ironic, isn't it? And to think flatearthers target Al Gore.

    • 2 years ago
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