Do or die - James Lovelock on global warming and our environment
Let’s look at China’s freak weather and catostrophe. Forget about the crazy omens they keep saying that Olympics is sheer bad luck for China and that all the wanted date of events all add up to eight(12th May = 1＋2＋5＝8), and that the Fuwas are evil creatures. Let’s look at something more feasible, whether man-made or natural disasters. From here, we can see that signs of Mother Nature is complaining unbalance we are doing to the system.
We all know that the earth is growing warmer annually. Glaciers from the southern and northern pole are gradually melting. Looking at Southern American countries, there are signs that the thawing of glaciers will continue at a drastic spped in which we will not be able to comprehend how life will be. This is what James Lovelock, “You could quite seriously look at climate change as a response of the system intended to get rid of an irritating species: us humans”. Whether he said is true a not does not matter, but we can know that Mother nature has its own way in dealing with depletion problems. No matter how we toil the lands and steal her resources away, she is able to replenish it provided there are years for the land to rest(example: Northern region of agriculture in which the soil loses its nutrients after 40 years of massive agriculture, but current statistics show that only after 5-10 years of rest, the land has return back to it rich nutrient levels).
We have a lack in energy resource, or rather it will deplete, and currently, because there is not enough of oil production leading to a panic and price rise in oil. Of course, OPEC is trying to solve the problem or might be taking it as an advantage to push for profits, no one is for sure. But at least we know the middle-eastern countries are triggered by the these effects, and they are trying to build a marvelous city once again in the desert of theirs. For some, they are contemplating using other energy resource such as hydro, wind and solar. James felt that “Civilization in in danger and has to use nuclear - the one safe energy source - now or suffer the pain soon be inflicted by our outraged planet”. however, people are still skeptical about using it. We can look back at Chernobyl and we will understand the complications in using such an energy source.
And we as humans are aware of the need to protect our environment, but due to a selfish need of survival, many of us tend to ignore the problems we are dealing with in our daily living, procrastinating and saying that “let someone else do the job”, in the end, any form of protecting the Earth we live in has to be implicated down through laws and regulations. That is how pathetic we are. As James said it himself”I would sooner expect a goat to succeed as a garderner than expect humans to be stewards of the Earth”.
Maybe he is right, but as humans we should do our best to think about what is in hand for the future, not a short one of a lifespan, but one that includes the generations of others who will still be residing in this earth of ours. Perhaps he had predicted a world where everyone will race off to the northern regions as the world gets flooded, but as long we have the time to fight it, let’s prove him wrong.
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dan, How can I get a polar city ID for free?
Polar cities dubbed “Lovelock cities” in honor of James Lovelock
Polar cities are now being dubbed “Lovelock cities” in honor of James Lovelock, who has said that in the future human populations will likely be reduced greatly by global warming and only “breeding pairs in the Arctic” will keep the human species going. This is where the idea of polar cities germinated from.
Now, after blogging about polar cities for almost 2 years, and getting a little ink here and there, mostly in the blogosphere (and almost nothing in the mainstream media) I have decided to dub polar cities as “Lovelock Cities” in honor of James Lovelock, and also to help reporters and editors and readers understand better that these so-called polar cities at NOT at the poles per se, but merely in northern areas of the world; some Lovelock cities might be situated in Colorado, Switzerland and Britain, in fact. New Zealand and Tasmania, too. Patagonia, too. None at the North Pole because the North Pole will be underwater (or is that under water?).
At any rate, you heard the term first today here: LOVELOCK CITIES. May they help preserve the human spirit and the human species in the far distant future, IF WE NEED THEM. Let’s hope we never need them. Remember, this is all a “just in case” scenario. A “what if” scenario.
Here’s a timeline for Lovelock Cities:
2008-2050 : business as usual; meetings, conferences, talk talk talk
2050 - 2080 : preparations finally get underway
2100 : first mass migrations to Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Greenland, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Britain, Tasmani, New Zealand, Patagonia begin
2200 : second wave of mass migrations bring more people north from India, Africa, Asia and the Americas — and south to Tasmania and New Zealand
2300 : World Government Body (WGB) set up first officially sanctioned polar cities for breeding pairs in the Arctic, also known as Lovelock Cities
2400 : major climate disasters worldwide with scarce food, fuel, power, and other resources (coupled with overpopulation) begin reducing world population from 9 billion people to 1 billion people
2500 : world population declines to just 200,000 “breeding pairs” in the Arctic (and southern extremes as well, including Antarctica) in 100 to 30 Lovelock Cities situated in those regions and administered and governed by the World Government Body or some such entity, perhaps the IPCC. [Mad Max conditions outside these Lovelock Cities, aka polar cities, last for 1000 years... until 3500]
4500 : The human species has made it through the Great Interruption, intact but greatly reduced in numbers. Full recovery possible beginning in 4500. Hope springs eternal.
Note A: children born in Lovelock Cities (aka Polar Cities) are mixed DNA humans of combined Caucasian-Asian-African-Hispanic-Arab stock, creating a new “race” on Earth
Note B: a new religious perspective develops before, during and after the Great Interruption to help humans cope with and understand what has happened to them
this is very gloomy..my friend.. Danny