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Thu 04 Apr 2009The genial prophet of climate doom
James Lovelock is perhaps the world’s leading thinker on environmental issues – and his prognosis for the future of humanity is grim. In Ireland to speak at UCD this week, he tells RONAN McGREEVYwhy he thinks climate change is irreversible and why Ireland may become ‘a lifeboat for humanity’
IT IS DIFFICULT to have a sense of perspective on future events when the present seems so dire. These are hard times, but they may be viewed by future generations as a golden era of plenty, punctuated by occasional minor reverses such as the one we are currently experiencing.
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