Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World

Posted by timothy on from the summon-the-council-of-wise-men dept.

mosb1000 writes "Climate scientist James Lovelock claims it may be necessary to put democracy on hold to prevent a global climate catastrophe. He goes on to say that the best remedies may be adaptation techniques such as building sea defenses." Lovelock is famously the creator of the Gaia hypothesis.

1 of 865 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Democracy? by ignavus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Abolish elections and select your legislatures by random sampling of the population.

    That completely undermines parties as well as saving the huge costs of elections and the corruption of election financing by big corporations.

    --
    I am anarch of all I survey.