Posted on 08/10/2018 2:23:07 PM PDT by Simon Green
And in Lovelocks view, the Earths self-regulating system is seriously out of whack, thanks largely to our 150-year fossil fuel binge. You could quite seriously look at climate change as a response of the system intended to get rid of an irritating species: us humans, Lovelock told me in 2007 when I visited him at his house in Devon, England, for a profile in Rolling Stone. Or at least cut them back to size.
By 2020, droughts and other extreme weather will be commonplace. By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe, and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions. The Chinese have nowhere to go but up into Siberia, Lovelock says. How will the Russians feel about that? I fear that war between Russia and China is probably inevitable. With hardship and mass migrations will come epidemics, which are likely to kill millions. By 2100, Lovelock believes, the Earths population will be culled from todays 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Doesn’t water make earth more than 70% uninhabitable already?
Not to fish! :)
Ask Paul Erlich and Julian Simon about how doomsday predictions in 1980 worked out.
...[Erlich wanted to bet] “even money that England will not exist in the year 2000”...
...Somehow a man who has not only erred by the width and breadth of a couple of galaxies, but who has also advised governments to impose population growth limits and advocated “the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food,” is yet considered an essential intellectual, so much so that he remains at Stanford and is still racking up prizes and awards...
But we don't know what (or whom) Wan Weiner might have had in his mouth when he spake!
Mark Twain mocked this sort of “long range” prediction. They are very mockable.
Stoned Roller should stick to music, crappy as it is...
Wake me when all the “End of the World” sex kicks in.
That you, Dr. Goebbels?
These God-hating enviro-whackos make my blood boil.
"Irritating species?" JESUS CHRIST said different. Through David, he said that He made the earth for mankind (Psalm 115:16). He said that what He made, including MANKIND, was "very good" (Genesis 1:31). The heaven is God's throne, and the earth is His footstool (Isaiah 66:1).
This sinful, boastful man, who is so full of hatred he apparently seeks to murder all of humankind to satisfy his climate fantasy, can be destroyed by one breath from the King of Kings.
I guarantee you: THAT’S WRONG.
Gee. A climate expert from Rolling Stone. I thought all those guys did was wax rhapsodic about crap music and esoteric noise goulash. And all this time they were meteorological whiz kids to boot!
If/when the next Ice Age starts we are going to wish we could make enough CO2 to save ourselves.
Jann Wenner is a fag commie crony capitalist and should be ignored.
Remember his original academic specialty is butterfly population dynamics. If people reacted to change like butterflies he might have a point! People don’t so he doesn’t!
Rolling Stone? Nah, more like Writing Stoned!
Uh oh. With that kind of crazy talk, you are going to make some liberal’s head explode.
Uh oh. With that kind of crazy talk, you are going to make some liberal’s head explode.
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