James Lovelock is an independent atmospheric scientist who lives and works deep in the English countryside. He has a knack for making discoveries of global significance. Lovelock is the inventor of the electron capture detector, a palm-size chamber that detects man-made chemicals in minute concentrations. In the late 1950s, his detector was used to demonstrate that pesticide residues were present in virtually all species on Earth, from penguins in Antarctica to mother's milk in the United States. This provided the hard data for Rachel Carson's landmark 1962 environmental book, "The Silent Spring," which launched the international campaign to ban the pesticide DDT.
“There will be probably a culling of the (world) population on a pretty hefty scale.”
As it happens, David Suzuki was mentioning the same thing about this global warming business and that it’s just getting too late to be able to turn away from the inevitable and drastic reaction of the earth and sky to our pollution.
Meanwhile George Bush’s lackeys have recently watered down the text of the latest international treaty re emissions causing global warming making it toothless to enforce.
-with notes derived from article by Lawrence E Joseph in Salon.com
and Lovelock interview by Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
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