The earth can do perfectly well without us humans - oh, no!

Not the system but WE all exploit the planet for its finite resources. There are vast disparities in the income and wealth in the rich industrial nations but an even bigger chasm between the rich and poorest nations of the world.

I want the powerful railway unions to do what one boss said last decade on TV and to take industrial action to boost the salaries of our nurses and care workers.

And, the union bosses to give themselves a wage no more than 20 times that of their lowest member.

We all need to tighten our belts for the sake of those truly poor and future generations that will have a less fertile and rich world of untapped resources and wonderful abundance.

There is no right to have ever rising standards of living and economic growth/greed/GHG emissions.

We just can't go on living infinitely on a finite planet and living so unnaturally on a natural planet.

JAMES LOVELOCK on Desert Island Discs in 1991:

Evan Davies said, "The inventor of the Gaia hypothesis, named after the Greek goddess of the earth. It stated that life on this planet is a self-regulating community of organisms and their inanimate surroundings.

He's been an enormous figure in the environment movement over the decades and died today at 103 years, actually on his birthday", said Evan Davies on 27 July 2022 on Radio 4's 'PM' programme.

Lovelock: 

"The fact that earth lived for 3.5 billion years, if lived is the right word, is I think ample proof that it can do without us and run very well without us whatever we do. I don't like the idea of stewardship that applies to humans because I don't think we have reached that state of grace where we are capable of being stewards."

Sue Lawley:

"But conversely, from not being in charge in that way, it would be possible for the whole of planet earth to stop being in a place where man could live. To slip into some other mode where it would be too hot for him or too cold for him or too much water for him."

Lovelock:  

"That's right. Well, the rules of the game are very like the rules of the old goddesses - Gaia (Greek goddess of the earth) and Kali. They were feminine and kind and all the rest of it. But if you broke the rules you would be zapped without doubt and eliminated. And it's just the same with Gaia. Any species that adversely affects the environment will not succeed. It will be eliminated. Where those that favour the environment that favour it for their progeny will automatically be rewarded."