Just travel to China you will know that it is not a matter of 20 years of good life. It is all about tomorrow and next year. His judgment on the solutions make sense. But his suggestion (just enjoy while you can and assuming you will have 20 years) made him sound like just another spoiled American.

Actually the buzzword nowadays is “global climate change”. That way, you can keep people needlessly alarmed at EVERY weather related story that makes the world press. Too hot? Humans are at fault! Too cold? Humans are at fault! Lotsa rain this year? Humans are at fault! Having a drought? Yup, you guessed it.

Nostra culpa, nostra culpa, nostra maxima culpa!

100 times as many say it is a HOAX or Junk Science

I guess it’s easier to treat the planet like a giant trashcan if you figure you’ll be dead and gone in a few years.

Well, you first kiddo. Try to off yourself in the compost pile so we can get something positive out of your life.

Wow. Isn’t that just a TAD bit premature to judge? We are just a mere 8 years into the century and Alex has already decided that the environment will be the biggest challenge for the next 92 years! How can you possibly know that? It couldn’t possibly be disease, famine, or war? Come on… I don’t personally ascribe to global warming theory, but recognize there are some who do. Please act/speak rationally and tone down the hyperbole.

What’s a selfish fungus? A lot of fungi are very cooperative— ask a lichen.

+1 +1 – win/win symbiosis for the moss and the fungus

It’d be nice if we humans had that sort of relationship w/ other living things for the most part, or at least +1 0 ..we win, nothing loses

Unfortunately, parasitism +1 -1 is almost always the direction our activities take. Worth noting that the most successful parasites tend to not kill their hosts and if they do, they’ve got somewhere else to go and/or another form in their life-cycle.

Too bad growing kids these days don’t have much in the way of political power.. considering it’s their future on the line and they have more ecological science background on all of this stuff than the average adult.

Grownups these days are all economy and no ecology.

What’s a selfish fungus? A lot of fungi are very cooperative— ask a lichen.

+1 +1 – win/win symbiosis for the moss and the fungus

It’d be nice if we humans had that sort of relationship w/ other living things for the most part, or at least +1 0 – we win, nothing loses

Unfortunately, parasitism +1 -1 is almost always the direction our activities take. Worth noting that the most successful parasites tend to not kill their hosts and if they do, they’ve got somewhere else to go and/or another form in their life-cycle.

Too bad kids-teens these days don’t have much in the way of political power.. considering it’s their future on the line and they have more ecological science background on all of this stuff than the average adult.

Grownups these days are all economy and no ecology.

i’d rather listen to mayer hillman any day. he may be nearly as extreme but at least he proposes some solutions. ‘do more of what you want’. spoken like a true old white european male who’s done scant else but that i shouldn’t wonder. lovelock should just shut up, frankly.

I said nothing at all as to whether or not it reflected my own beliefs nor whether it was actually the basis for “REAL science.”

Huh? State any reference to REAL science that believes in that mother gaia crap. Maybe you should leave that final fantasy to Dr. Aki Ross and her buddy Dr. Sid.

In general, he was NOT right. The environment is getting lots of press, because of the hoax of “man-made global warming”, but it is not a challenge when looking at the science. The Earth warms, the Earth cools, our miniscule poofing of pollution has little if nothing to do with it. The Sun is in charge.

He forgets that there are lot of people out there in the world who believe everything is the way it is and it’s OK because god is there for them.

And he goes on to say “”There have been seven disasters since humans came on the earth, very similar to the one that’s just about to happen. I think these events keep separating the wheat from the chaff. And eventually we’ll have a human on the planet that really does understand it and can live with it properly. That’s the source of my optimism.”"

Ice age? are you listening?

Dinosaurs? come back and eat us