The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity

by JamesLovelock (Author)

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  Lovelock's unique authority and original perspective sets this book apart from other books on environmental change. He speaks as a planetary physician with more than forty years' experience of thinking about how to respond to the Earth's needs as a living organism. Illustrated with examples drawn from his experiences around the world, Lovelock draws many radical conclusions, most controversially a passionate advocacy of nuclear energy. This, he argues, is not only a secure, safe and reliable source of energy but also the only way to counter the lethal heat waves and rising sea levels, which will increasingly threaten civilisations. Lovelock argues that the only way for humankind to come to terms with Gaia now, and have a chance of surviving, is to embrace science and technology, not reject them. This is his passionate manifesto of how to do that and so lessen our impact on the Earth before it is too late.

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  James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire warning against the unchecked growth of civilization. 'Despite all our efforts to retreat sustainably, we may be unable to prevent a global decline into a chaotic world ruled by brutal warlords on a devastated Earth...' For thousands of years, humans have exploited the planet without counting the cost. Now Gaia, the living Earth, is fighting back. As the polar icecaps shrink and the global temperature rises, we approach the point of no return. Sustainable development, Lovelock argues, is no longer possible, and the only open to us may be a 'sustainable retreat'. This is the one book you must read to find out what is happening, how bad it will get - and how we can survive. The most important book for decades . (Andrew Marr). The most important book ever to be published on the environmental crisis...Lovelock will go down in history as the scientist who changed our view of the Earth . (John Gray, Independent ). Truly terrifying...Lovelock's arguments carry more conviction than anyone else's now writing . (Peter Forbes, Daily Mail ). James Lovelock is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). He has written several books on the subject, including Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth , The Ages of Gaia and The Vanishing Face of Gaia as well as an autobiography, Homage to Gaia . In September 2005 Prospect magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global public intellectuals.

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  James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire warning against the unchecked growth of civilization. 'Despite all our efforts to retreat sustainably, we may be unable to prevent a global decline into a chaotic world ruled by brutal warlords on a devastated Earth...' For thousands of years, humans have exploited the planet without counting the cost. Now Gaia, the living Earth, is fighting back. As the polar icecaps shrink and the global temperature rises, we approach the point of no return. Sustainable development, Lovelock argues, is no longer possible, and the only open to us may be a 'sustainable retreat'. This is the one book you must read to find out what is happening, how bad it will get - and how we can survive. The most important book for decades . (Andrew Marr). The most important book ever to be published on the environmental crisis...Lovelock will go down in history as the scientist who changed our view of the Earth . (John Gray, Independent ). Truly terrifying...Lovelock's arguments carry more conviction than anyone else's now writing . (Peter Forbes, Daily Mail ). James Lovelock is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). He has written several books on the subject, including Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth , The Ages of Gaia and The Vanishing Face of Gaia as well as an autobiography, Homage to Gaia . In September 2005 Prospect magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global public intellectuals.