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The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity
by: James Lovelock

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EAN: 9780141025971
ISBN: 0141025972
Label: Penguin Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: February 22, 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Studio: Penguin Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 27588

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- Essential Reading
We should salute the (now) 89 -year-old author, James Ephraim Lovelock (Ephraim is Hebrew for fruitful): an independent, dissenting voice in science. Rebelling against reductionist philosophies, he took an inclusive, systems view of the planet, publishing his Gaia Hypothesis in 1970. It took over 30 years for the international scientific community to come round.

Having studied chemistry at Manchester U and received his PhD in medicine at London U, Lovelock was engaged in the 1960s by NASA to find ways to detect life on Mars. He realized that life would influence the atmosphere and designed an instrument to detect trace gases. Thinking about the reason why Mars is so barren and Earth so fruitful, he arrived at his Hypothesis.
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- Forget Windfarms - Go Nuclear!
I first read "The Revenge of Gaia" two years ago, when it was published. By early 2006, of course, we were all becoming aware of a progressively strident chorus about the imminent catastrophe that global warming was going to cause and how there was a scientific consensus on the matter. Lovelock was the first book I read on the subject.

I was suitably alarmed by Lovelock's analysis, and particularly by his identification of "tipping points", whereby a relatively modest increase in temperature would lead to positive feedbacks, e.g. from a hotter Amazon rainforest dying and releasing its stored CO2, by a greening Greenland absorbing rather than reflecting heat, and thus causing further, and unstoppable, global warming. Lovelock envisaged ... Read More:

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- Forget Windfarms - Go Nuclear!
I first read "The Revenge of Gaia" two years ago, when it was published. By early 2006, of course, we were all becoming aware of a progressively strident chorus about the imminent catastrophe that global warming was going to cause and how there was a scientific consensus on the matter. Lovelock was the first book I read on the subject.

I was suitably alarmed by Lovelock's analysis, and particularly by his identification of "tipping points", whereby a relatively modest increase in temperature would lead to positive feedbacks, e.g. from a hotter Amazon rainforest dying and releasing its stored CO2, by a greening Greenland absorbing rather than reflecting heat, and thus causing further, and unstoppable, global warming. Lovelock envisaged ... Read More:

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- Visionary and controversial
This is a book that will probably inform and infuriate in equal measure. Lovelock is in no doubt as to the severity of the challenge we face from global warming, and this work can be seen as an applied version of his thesis that the earth, as a self-regulating mechanism (which he names `Gaia'), will deal with the problem - with or without human help. After leading the reader through the global warming science in lucid and logical style - which brings home the threat very dramatically - the author has some characteristically robust, visionary and sometimes iconoclastic technological solutions to the problem.

It is here that he sometimes demonstrates an overweening confidence in certain technologies, notably nuclear power. His claim that ... Read More:

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- He must be fun at Dinner Parties
If Gaia must have her revenge on us, then so be it. James Lovelock just makes sure we are aware that we are wholeheartedly to blame for her wrath.
I have never read a more depressing book. If 6 billion is unsustainable and 1 billion would be more appropriate to the Gaian theory, then please explain how, in 30 years we lose the 5 billion?

I can recommend this to some people. Read this if you are poor at maths and have no children.

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