one of the turning points for me regarding the popular eco-movements was that they largely dismissed james lovelock and his ideas. except climate change of course, which he later on revised into less of a doomsday scenario.

he was too big a fan of nuclear energy. his idea to have farmers carbonizing things like cut shrubs and plow the resulting charcoal to bind CO2 like terra preta was good too, at least more sane than all the hyper-complicated ideas the technocrats now have.

i also believe in the gaia theory. it is rather self-evident for me. just observe how everything interacts in nature.

what makes everything so dreary is the people who say they are helping are doing the exact opposite and most believe them.

i don't think it's CO2 which will end everything. it's all the synthetic stuff with no equivalent in nature which will poison everything. it's genetic experiments which will go wrong at some point. it's mankinds thought that we know gaias workings and can manipulate them as we see fit which will undo us.

maybe the next ones will be wiser.