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发帖数: 29846 | 1 February 7, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston
One of the world’s premiere environmentalists, credited as a founder of the
green movement, is fighting plans to erect wind turbines in his own village.
Professor James Lovelock, 93, is renowned for having created the “Gaia
Theory” and becoming one of the World’s earliest and most active modern
environmentalists. He is also known for predicting global warming and saying
that by the year 2100 warming would kill off four fifths of the world’s
population.
Lovelock has, however, has lately come at odds to the movement he helped
foster angering the environmental movement by becoming a recent advocate of
nuclear power and for opposing wind energy.
It’s a case of NIMBY (not in my back yard) for the professor as he has
joined local activists in Broadwoodwidger, Devon, who are trying to stop the
erection of wind turbines. Lovelock says wind turbines are “monuments of a
failed civilization.”
“I am an environmentalist and founder member of the Greens but I bow my
head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have
been so misunderstood,” Lovelock recently wrote.
“We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy
sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside
our priceless ecological heritage because of their failure to understand
that the needs of the Earth are not separable from human needs.”
Lovelock especially stands against greenism via certain acts of government
fiat legislation calling it something akin to “fascism.”
“Although well-intentioned it is an erosion of our freedom and draws near
to what I see as fascism,” he said. |
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