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Lovelock is anti-people
Lovelock...COMMENTARY <br /><br />Lovelock is anti-people<br /> <br />Lovelock's concern for Earth papers over a disturbing streak of authoritarianism<br /><br />May 23, <br /><br /><br />Back in 1974, in his book Gaia, James Lovelock warned that a world population exceeding 10 billion, at current or higher levels of energy consumption, would mean a choice between "permanent enslavement on the prison hulk of the spaceship Earth, or gigadeath to enable the survivors to restore a Gaian world."<br /><br />In his new book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning, Lovelock seems even less optimistic about our prospects: "The Earth, in its but not our interests,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com