Not of strict relevance here, but we're immensely fond of scientists and technologists who say the unsayable. No-one falls into that category more consistently than Gaia theorist and radical environmental scientist James Lovelock. His last book, Gaia's Revenge laid out his hypothesis that climate change has passed some kind of tipping point and that environmental cataclysm will result. In this Guardian interview he rams the point home: the mainstreaming of green issues is at best irrelevance and  at worse takes our eye off the real ball here, that is, to figure out how the hell to deal with the consequences of the inevitable.

And how to deal with this on a personal level? "Enjoy life while you can. Because if you're lucky it's going to be 20 years before it hits the fan."

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