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Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction

At a UN sustainability meeting several years ago, an economic policy officer came up to Gaya Herrington and introduced himself. Taking her name for a riff on James Lovelock’s earth-as-an-organism Gaia hypothesis, he remarked: “Gaya – that’s not a name, it’s responsibility.” Herrington, a Dutch …