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THE financial crash may help sales of James Lovelock‘s second volume on Gaia. If it happened to the economy, why not to climate? Both systems are “complex and non-linear and can change suddenly and unexpectedly”, he writes. He lacks confidence in climate models with their smoothly rising curves of global temperature up to 2100, and instead anticipates a sudden flip to a state 5°C as hot.
Since it is too late to prevent this, we must think about how to adapt and act fast. The best chapters concern survival strategies, such as energy and food…
