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Originally Posted by plainshorse
Read this interview with James Lovelock:
James Lovelock: 'enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan' | Environment | The Guardian
there is not much more to be said really. Although I don't agree with his belief that nuclear power will help us.
The problem, IMHO is the Earth is grossly over populated with people and the consequential effect is climate change and mass extinction of other species. The change is taking place now and so it will continue.
As for independent travel by motorcycle / car etc. I think that has a limited future. So enjoy it while you can.
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Thanks for the reminder; it's been a while since I heard about his Gaia theory, and I see that he is now aged 88.
I guess Lovelock doesn't get too much public scrutiny nowadays, whereas the guy who runs the web site below has had that very thing in some quarters of the UK, recently.
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It has been said that the UN has a policy about the world population; I haven't gone too far into that but there is a very interesting presentation by a Swedish medical doctor and statistician about population growth - it's worth a look; along the way he touchs on the subject of ignorance especially among university graduates fed on conventional "wisdom".
Hans Rosling is the docs name and the video is called something like "Don't panic" (he is an optimist).
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His 1 hour vid is named Don't panic and it can be seen via various outlets (thanks internet!).
Gapminder is one source of the vid which also tends to bring up reference to the short talks produced under the moniker "TED" - they can also be of interest.
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