Are we just too stupid to survive? Do we deserve the last, presumably posthumous, Darwin Award?

The Guardian reports an interview with James Lovelock which pulls no punches.

“I don’t think we’re yet evolved to the point where we’re clever enough to handle as complex a situation as climate change,”

“There has been a lot of speculation that [...]

McKinsey and others continue to produce reports that suggest that Efficiency, that rather plain sister to the much more desirable Innovation, should be invited to the ball. Their latest, states that using only measures that are net present value positive at a 7% discount rate, the US could reduce consumer demand by 23% by 2020 [...]

Dr Peter Gleick, who is president of the Pacific Institute has written a lovely piece for the San Francisco Chronicle available here.

He writes:-

“Those who deny that humans are causing unprecedented climate change have never, ever produced an alternative scientific argument that comes close to explaining the evidence we see around the [...]

Opinion polls as well as the actions of politicians show that the public’s views on climate change have shifted quite dramatically in the past year, and not for the better. Kevin Rudd no longer wants to use the ETS as a double dissolution trigger, and the dissentients are definitely in the ascendant (does this mean [...]