4.5 million dead would be a good thing for the planet though, wouldn't it? If you're a Gaiaist surely this is just mother nature bitch-slapping hummanity back down to a reasonable population size.
2 years is absurd, even assuming systemic collapse of global society and economy people will persit in larger numbers longer than that.
Interestingly, the Climate Change lobby has been very seriously hurt by A: the attack of science on religion and philosophy and B: the recent scandals of scientists "sexing" up their data because they feel they need to scare the general populace into complience. "climate Change" is now being lumped in with "moral reletivism" as well as "militant atheism" and "multiculturalism".
Bluntly, the physical scientists would probably be getting more traction if men like Dawkins had confined themselves to useful research instead of populist rubbish, and we might all suffer as a result.
The fact is, it's quite clear that the scientists aren't really sure what's going on, but instead of trying to present the ecological and economic case for renewable energy and sustainabl development, not to mention the moral case on which they are silent, they resort to absurd scare tactics that cause them to be generally ignored.
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