Lovelock has been predicting the future since the 1960s apparently and getting it about right. Lovelock now reckons that we have 20 years “if we are lucky, before it hits the fan”.
These sorts of future predictions intended by some to scare people into action, from people like Lovelock come as a ‘told you so’. An expression of pain and frustration from a lifetime of banging one’s head against the brickwall that is capitalist society. These predictions usually lead me into a Terminator-esque Sarah Hamilton moment of holding onto the chain-link fence, looking at my children and screaming noooooooooooooo! Then, it’s a deep breath, and channel, channel that energy into something positive. Like imagining the multiple post-oil futures, even with a drowned London and refugees fleeing Europe to our crowded island…
“We can work it out, if we try, together, uh ha”
