The climate science maverick believes catastrophe is inevitable, carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he do, asks Decca Aitkenhead
Doomerism at its best. Because how much better off would we have been, if more people in 2008 had said “okay, let’s build renewable energy and circular economies to slow down climate change” instead of saying, like Lovelock, “climate collapse is inevitable and there’s nothing to do about it”?
No one listened to him then. No one listened to the non doomer climate researchers either. The record for most carbon emissions in a year by humanity? 2024 until 2025 is in the books. The only decline in emissions I have witnessed in my more than half century was due to a pandemic rather than any voluntary action.
We’ll be building solar powered oil wells to extract the otherwise negative eroi fuel before too long.
Some times I think we’re all the same as the guy who wants to pet the tiger cause it’s cute. Consequences are for everyone else.
Doomerism at its best. Because how much better off would we have been, if more people in 2008 had said “okay, let’s build renewable energy and circular economies to slow down climate change” instead of saying, like Lovelock, “climate collapse is inevitable and there’s nothing to do about it”?
No one listened to him then. No one listened to the non doomer climate researchers either. The record for most carbon emissions in a year by humanity? 2024 until 2025 is in the books. The only decline in emissions I have witnessed in my more than half century was due to a pandemic rather than any voluntary action.
We’ll be building solar powered oil wells to extract the otherwise negative eroi fuel before too long.
Some times I think we’re all the same as the guy who wants to pet the tiger cause it’s cute. Consequences are for everyone else.
Yup. And this is exactly why I have no faith in climate collapse being mitigated in any way now.