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Ironically, while the front page is covered with the dismal, but honest, projections of James Lovelock, the rest of the British newspapers are riddled with advertising for fossil fuels. Aside from noting the double standard of the corporate media, one should heed the warnings of one of the foremost experts on planetary modelling and planets as superorganisms.

Medialens - Billions Will Die - Scientist James Lovelock - who conceived the idea of the living Earth as a great super-organism, ‘Gaia’ - argues that, as a result of climate change, humanity is “past the point of no return” such that “civilisation as we know it is now unlikely to survive”. (Michael McCarthy, ‘Attempts to counter global warming are already doomed to failure, says Lovelock,’ The Independent, January 16, 2006)

In an article which he describes as “the most difficult I have written”, Lovelock predicts utter catastrophe for humankind:
“Before this century is over, billions of us will die, and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable… We will do our best to survive, but sadly I cannot see the United States or the emerging economies of China and India cutting back in time, and they are the main source of [CO2] emissions. The worst will happen…” (Lovelock, ‘The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years,’ The Independent, January 16, 2006)

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Independent: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years