From The Guardian, a headline that could not be more alarmist if it tried:
Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age
This off-the-rails scaremonger wet dream is brought to you by one James Lovelock, father of the Gaia hypothesis. The war he speaks of is not one between humans, but one with us pitched against a vengeful planet that is fixing to bust a cap in humanity’s collective ass.
Lovelock is an odd duck because he has embraced nuclear power as an option and has little time for today’s enviro-weenies, but only because they’re not man enough for the task:
The followers of the peace lobbies of the 1930s resembled the environmentalist movements now; their intentions were more than good but wholly inappropriate for the war that was about to start. It is time to wake up and realize that Gaia, the Earth system, is no cozy mother that nurtures humans and can be propitiated by gestures such as carbon trading or sustainable development.
Translation – Mother Earth’s a bitch, she’s mad as hell and packin’ heat.
Before you ask, this was printed in a (mostly) respectable national newspaper, not Fortean Times.
