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One last chance to save mankind

"Do you think we will survive?

I'm an optimistic pessimist. I think it's wrong to assume we'll survive 2 °C of warming: there are already too many people on Earth. At 4 °C we could not survive with even one-tenth of our current population. The reason is we would not find enough food, unless we synthesised it. Because of this, the cull during this century is going to be huge, up to 90 per cent. The number of people remaining at the end of the century will probably be a billion or less."
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"It's a depressing outlook.

Not necessarily. I don't think 9 billion is better than 1 billion."

"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. "

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Linked from http://www.drudgereport.com/

I think 1 billion is worse than 9 billion humans.
But when you don't even think there is such a thing as morality, such things as
making lamp shades from human skin is not different than making a raccoon hat.
And eating chicken is the same as genocide.

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