QuoteOn the release of his book, Here on Earth an argument for hope, scientist and author Tim Flannery appears in a public forum at The Seymour Centre in Sydney. Tim Flannery attended the Copenhagen climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009 which were largely seen as a failure. Despite this, and most environmental indicators looking bad and getting worse, Flannery outlines the reasons he is hopeful for the future of life on planet Earth.
There are audio links and transcript here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/st ... 101365.htm (http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2011/3101365.htm)
The comments on the linked page are mostly negative, I'm often pessimistic about theses things but as others have said, if everyone takes a negative outlook, a negative outcome is inevitable.
Don't look to science for hope, or display concern for the environment, otherwise the religious will call you religious.
I find it quite annoying being called religious.
QuoteThe following day The Australian reproduced no fewer than four short columns from the Science Show script together with an editorial snorting that the Gaia Hypothesis is little more than quasi spiritual tosh.
Gaia is far more interesting than that. It also has had decades of serious attention from hard-nosed scientists, despite, (as I noted in the Science Show) some folk such as Richard Dawkins calling it crap.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011 ... te=thedrum (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/07/3108365.htm?site=thedrum)