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“I’m Looking Forward To It” (It Being The Death Of 80% Of Humanity)

Smiling James Lovelock predicts our coming destruction thanks to vengeful mother earth, that old bitch :

His latest book, The Revenge of Gaia, predicts that by 2020 extreme weather will be the norm, causing global devastation; that by 2040 much of Europe will be Saharan; and parts of London will be underwater.

Lovelock believes global warming is now irreversible, and that nothing can prevent large parts of the planet becoming too hot to inhabit, or sinking underwater, resulting in mass migration, famine and epidemics. Britain is going to become a lifeboat for refugees from mainland Europe…

(he) expects “about 80%” of the world’s population to be wiped out by 2100.

There’ll be nine billion people on Planet Earth within the next two decades. If six or seven billion people are going to die in the next century, as Lovelock predicts, that’s an awful lot of bodies kicking around. Perhaps we could find a way to convert the most prolific available resource, human corpses, into energy? Continuing mass death could then become renewable energy.

Forget it. Lovelock thinks renewable energy is a joke. He openly mocks those who want to save the world by changing their lightbulbs.

More alarming even than his apocalyptic climate predictions is his utter certainty that almost everything we’re trying to do about it is wrong.

“It’s just too late for it,” he says. “Perhaps if we’d gone along routes like that in 1967, it might have helped. But we don’t have time. All these standard green things, like sustainable development, I think these are just words that mean nothing.”

He dismisses eco ideas briskly, one by one. “Carbon offsetting? I wouldn’t dream of it. It’s just a joke. To pay money to plant trees, to think you’re offsetting the carbon? You’re probably making matters worse. You’re far better off giving to the charity Cool Earth, which gives the money to the native peoples to not take down their forests.”

And recycling, he adds, is “almost certainly a waste of time and energy”, while having a “green lifestyle” amounts to little more than “ostentatious grand gestures”. He distrusts the notion of ethical consumption. “Because always, in the end, it turns out to be a scam … or if it wasn’t one in the beginning, it becomes one.”

He saves his thunder for what he considers the emptiest false promise of all - renewable energy.

“You’re never going to get enough energy from wind to run a society such as ours,” he says. “Windmills! Oh no. No way of doing it. You can cover the whole country with the blasted things, millions of them. Waste of time.”

No need to be nasty, Mr Lovelock. A few million windmills could be very handy indeed if great swathes of England’s population is looking for higher ground when your vengeful oceans wash over the sea walls. Not a lot of higher ground in much of England, which is where very tall windmills could prove to be life savers.

But Lovelock doesn’t want people to be saved. They have to die, you see. Well, most of them. Most of us. More on that later.

(Lovelock) introduced the Gaia hypothesis, a revolutionary theory that the Earth is a self-regulating super-organism. Initially ridiculed by many scientists as new age nonsense, today that theory forms the basis of almost all climate science.

Hmm, might that be part of the problem? What was once “new age nonsense” forming the foundation of attempts to re-invent the production of energy? Or to introduce a global tax system based around ‘carbon currency’ anyway.

More from the story :

As with most people, my panic about climate change is equalled only by my confusion over what I ought to do about it.

Stop panicking for starters?

A meeting with Lovelock therefore feels a little like an audience with a prophet.

Prophets have been foretelling Armageddon since time began, he says. “But this is the real thing.”

Prophets have also been saying that for a long time, too.

Lovelock, the misery-chuffed old shit, appears to have laughed and grinned and smiled his way through this interview. He predicts doom for almost all, and laughs about it.

“Well I’m cheerful!” he says, smiling. “I’m an optimist. It’s going to happen.”

Maybe he’s laughing because he knows a million or so people will buy his new book, to read of how utterly fruitless the global effort will be to stop climate change destructorama.

People love disaster movies and end-of-the-world stories, they are embedded in the bedrock of ancient stories and culture of nearly every race and religion in the world.

But what was once science fiction, or speculative fiction, can now go up on bookstore shelves as non-fiction, and be filed under “science” or, more in keeping with new bookshop trends, “climate change”.

Humanity is in a period exactly like 1938-9, he explains, when “we all knew something terrible was going to happen, but didn’t know what to do about it”. But once the second world war was under way, “everyone got excited, they loved the things they could do, it was one long holiday … so when I think of the impending crisis now, I think in those terms. A sense of purpose - that’s what people want.”

What the fuck is this old bastard talking about? What kind of loon thinks World War 2 was “one long holiday”?

At moments I wonder about Lovelock’s credentials as a prophet.

How about his credentials as a sane, emphatic human being?

Sometimes he seems less clear-eyed with scientific vision than disposed to see the version of the future his prejudices are looking for.

The journalist is disturbed because Lovelock is not frightened of the doom he predicts. He’s actually looking forward to it.

Lovelock : “There have been seven disasters since humans came on the earth, very similar to the one that’s just about to happen. I think these events keep separating the wheat from the chaff. And eventually we’ll have a human on the planet that really does understand it and can live with it properly. That’s the source of my optimism.”

Lovelock is looking forward to the unfolding of a new age of humans. Fine. Unfortunately for most of the current and soon to be born humanity, according to Lovelock, the new age of humans will only begin after Gaia has her “revenge” and slaughters billions, turns arable land into desert and unleashes her oceans into towns and cities.

His crushing disappointment (if he lives long enough) will be our salvation.

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