It's too late baby...

Lovelock Tells BBC That Mankind Cannot Save Gaia

James Lovelock, the scientist who put forth the Gaia Theory, has told the BBC it is too late for us to save the planet. According to Gaia Theory, the entire earth is a single organism, connected and interactive. Only just over a month ago, Lovelock called for authoritarian intervention while questioning whether humans are clever enough to respond correctly to the complexities of global warming.

In this newest interview, the perpetual pessimist seems to have made his peace with the inevitable, perhaps even with the end of mankind (though not the planet)....

With the BP disaster, freak weather...we may know sooner than later whether he is right.

Too stupid to save ourselves

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James Lovelock Says Humans 'Not Clever Enough' to Stop Climate Change

Climate Change is War: We Need More Authoritarian Action
Jumping right into the hook, Lovelock proclaims that,
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle as complex a situation as climate change. We're very active animals. We like to think, 'Ah, yes, this will be a good policy,' but it's almost never that simple. Wars show this to be true...climate change is kind of a repetition of a war-time situation. It could easily lead to a physical war.

In the end Lovelock concludes, it's going to take a a catastrophe such as the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica collapsing and rapidly raising sea levels or dust bowl conditions throughout the American Midwest to actually get humans to act on climate.

He's right. We just don't care. We care more about Tiger Woods, American Idol... We need a disaster to move us off our couches and away from the TV.