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GliderGuider

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16. Even if it's true?
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 12:46 PM
Apr 2012

Notwithstanding the fact that six billion people will die of natural causes this century, we are facing a "multiple organ failure" scenario involving energy, ecology (including climate change) and economics that could - and IMO will - depopulate the planet quite radically before the end of the century.

It's possible we could do something to reduce the impact, and in the process preserve some of the other life that's going extinct as the result of human activities. But we won't even begin to act until people start getting a bit alarmed - that's just the way our brains are wired.

Positions like Lovelock's are integral to this effort, which is why I'm disappointed to see him walking back his level of concern.

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