OT/point of no return

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Thanks for the link to the article. Lovelock's article is at

http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article338830.ece

and should also be read.

 

One of Lovelock's key assumptions is: " 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 emissions. " If we want to

prove Lovelock's prediction wrong, we'll need to prove this

assumption wrong. Shifting our populations towards more vegan (fuzzy

logic definition) and local sources of food will be essential....

 

, " linda " <lindai81@c...>

wrote:

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> I am having an " off topic " day I guess...but I think that what we

do with our vegetarian/vegan lifestyles has such a positive impact

and doesn't contribute to the death of the world...still....below is

the URL for the original article...I only included snips so that you

could decide whether or not you wanted to read the article.

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> http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338878.ece

>

> Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the

Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the

environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has

become widely accepted. Now, he believes mankind's abuse of the

environment is making that mechanism work against us. His

astonishing conclusion - that climate change is already insoluble,

and life on Earth will never be the same again.

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> The world has already passed the point of no return for climate

change, and civilisation as we know it is now unlikely to survive,

according to James Lovelock, the scientist and green guru who

conceived the idea of Gaia - the Earth which keeps itself fit for

life.