Neopaganism: Gaia hates people

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".....Had it been known then that life and the environment are closely coupled, Darwin would have seen that evolution involved not just the organisms, but the whole planetary surface. We might then have looked upon the Earth as if it were alive, and known that we cannot pollute the air or use the Earth's skin - its forest and ocean ecosystems - as a mere source of products to feed ourselves and furnish our homes. We would have felt instinctively that those ecosystems must be left untouched because they were part of the living Earth.... "

Translation: Poor countries need to stop their people from moving into "habitat"... poor people should remain poor...and ordinary folks in "rich" countries should go back to being poor like their ancestors.

Civilisation is energy-intensive and we cannot turn it off without crashing, so we need the security of a powered descent. ..

Yeah...let's go back to the good old days....

We will do our best to survive, but sadly I cannot see the United States or the emerging economies of China and India cutting back in time, and they are the main source of emissions....

How dare those peasants who left poverty in Europe to go to the US become rich...and how dare those poor peasants in China and India think they too should be able to have some of the advantages of civilization...

We should be the heart and mind of the Earth, not its malady. So let us be brave and cease thinking of human needs and rights alone, and see that we have harmed the living Earth and need to make our peace with Gaia.

This is neopaganism, where a mythical "gaia" is god...and people are the enemy..but why, dear sir, is Gaia killing poor people and not rich people? A category 4 hurricane with floods hit the US Gulf coast, and a few thousand died...a typhoon hit Bengeladesh causing flooding, and a a couple hundred thousand peole people died...I guess Gaia can't figure out where to hit...
Or, just MAYBE, unlike New Orleans, people didn't have cars to flee in, and more importantly, there was no superdome on high ground for the Bengali to flee to...in other words, Gaia is more likely to kill you if you are poor and "conserve the planet" than if you are rich and own a Ford F-150 and can hike it out to Baton Rouge...

I am not for excessive consumption or using a Ford F 150 in Manhattan (Although it does come in handy in Oklahoma)...and I have seen devestating mudslides from greedy loggers deforesting local hills. And I know about coalmine runoff devestating the stream, and oil well residue poisoning the cattle....yes, let us clean up the environment, and take care of it...But given the history of Fabian utopianism and eugenics in England, I suspect this type of rant is merely another version of the "too many of them, let's prevent them from breeding" talk over tea and crumpets...

Tom Clancy has a book where a group of ecologyworshipers who tried to help Gaia depopulate pesky peopel are punished by placing them in a pristine setting in the Amazon and left there.....

Wonder how Mr. Lovelock would like it in Zim when it's 45 degrees, no aircon, and have to walk 5 miles to fetch all his water...