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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: poetics@listserv.buffalo.edu
Subject: NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 192, Issue 6 (fwd) - James Lovelock - see
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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:43:25 -0500 (EST)
| Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist: | http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org | sondheim@panix.com, sondheim@gmail.org, tel US 718-813-3285 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:43:07 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>, Cyberculture <cyberculture@zacha.org> Subject: NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 192, Issue 6 (fwd) - James Lovelock - see belw Message: 8 Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:15:55 +0000 From: info <info@furtherfield.org> Subject: [NetBehaviour] James Lovelock and climate change. To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Message-ID: <497A6BCB.3090805@furtherfield.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed James Lovelock and climate change. With his 90th birthday in July, a trip into space scheduled for later in the year and a new book out next month, 2009 promises to be an exciting time for James Lovelock. But the originator of the Gaia theory, which describes Earth as a self-regulating planet, has a stark view of the future of humanity. He tells Gaia Vince we have one last chance to save ourselves - and it has nothing to do with nuclear power Your work on atmospheric chlorofluorocarbons led eventually to a global CFC ban that saved us from ozone-layer depletion. Do we have time to do a similar thing with carbon emissions to save ourselves from climate change? Not a hope in hell. Most of the "green" stuff is verging on a gigantic scam. Carbon trading, with its huge government subsidies, is just what finance and industry wanted. It's not going to do a damn thing about climate change, but it'll make a lot of money for a lot of people and postpone the moment of reckoning. I am not against renewable energy, but to spoil all the decent countryside in the UK with wind farms is driving me mad. It's absolutely unnecessary, and it takes 2500 square kilometres to produce a gigawatt - that's an awful lot of countryside. more... http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-last-chance-to-save-mankind.html