He’s the internationally respected scientist and environmentalist who invented the Gaia theory during the 1960’s – the idea that the earth itself behaves as a giant self-regulating organism.
Still going strong aged 90, his point in this interview is essentially that human beings as a whole are not yet evolved enough appreciate complex situations and make good decisions about them vis-à-vis climate change. So he concludes that we will be unable to make the significant and difficult changes that need to be made to avoid catastrophe until there actually is one, as politicians are of course continually slithering cynically around the limits of what the masses are prepared to tolerate while secretly or brazenly doing exactly what they want for personal gain...
