Let's Make Hay While It Lasts.

The Big Threat To The Planet Is People: There Are Too Many, Doing Too Well Economically And Burning Too Much Oil.

The Apologists For Space Science Always Seem Over-impressed By Engineering Trivia And Make Far Too Much Of Non-stick Frying Pans And Perfect Ball-bearings. To My Mind, The Outstanding Spin-off From Space Research Is Not New Technology. The Real Bonus Has Been That For The First Time In Human History We Have Had A Chance To Look At The Earth From Space, And The Information Gained From Seeing From The Outside Our Azure-green Planet In All Its Global Beauty Has Given Rise To A Whole New Set Of Questions And Answers.

Evolution Is A Tightly Coupled Dance, With Life And The Material Environment As Partners. From The Dance Emerges The Entity Gaia.

We Are In A Fool's Climate, Accidentally Kept Cool By Smoke, And Before This Century Is Over Billions Of Us Will Die And The Few Breeding Pairs Of People That Survive Will Be In The Arctic Where The Climate Remains Tolerable.

By 2040, The Sahara Will Be Moving Into Europe And Berlin Will Be As Hot As Baghdad. Atlanta Will End Up A Kudzu Jungle. Phoenix Will Become Uninhabitable, As Will Parts Of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising Seas) And London (floods). Food Shortages Will Drive Millions Of People North, Raising Political Tensions.