New James Lovelock climate warning
James Lovelock, the UK born chemist, inventor and planetary diagnostician who has predicted a clash between humans and their planet, has in a recent interview with The Herald Tribune outlined his most scary vision of the direction of the planet to date.
Asked where he thought the world was heading with even conservative predictions for growth of both populations and energy use, Mr Lovelock answered:
"I think we’re headed straight back to the Earth’s second stable state, which is a hot state that it’s been in many times before in the past. It’s about 14 degrees warmer than it is in these parts of the world now.
It means roughly that most life on the planet will have to move up to the Arctic basin, to the few islands that are still habitable and to oases on the continents. It will be a much-diminished world."
14th September 2006
