29 November 2006

In The Dictionary Next To "Credulous"

While reading a quite enjoyable article about how global warming, and thus catastrophic depopulation, is already unavoidable, I was stunned to come across this paragraph:
Lovelock adopted the name Gaia, the Greek mother earth goddess, in the 1960s to apply to his then revolutionary theory that the earth functions as a single, self-sustaining organism. His theory is now widely accepted.
His theory is now widely accepted?

1 comment:

joe shropshire said...

The article goes in the dictionary under "apocalyptically bitter old man." Lovelock is 87, and is taking his own imminent demise rather poorly. Spengler had the last word on this sort a couple of years ago:

It's not the end of the world - it's the end of you