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Original Title:	The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
ISBN:	0141035358 (ISBN13: 9780141035352)
Edition Language:	English

The Revenge Of Gaia: Why The Earth Is Fighting Back And How We Can Still Save Humanity

James E. Lovelock

Paperback | Pages: 222 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 1551 Users | 101 Reviews

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Title	:	The Revenge Of Gaia: Why The Earth Is Fighting Back And How We Can Still Save Humanity
Author	:	James E. Lovelock
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 222 pages
Published	:	September 6th 2007 by Penguin Books, Limited (UK) (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. Environment. Climate Change. Biology. Ecology. Philosophy. Politics

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The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick. It is running a fever born of increased atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a severe test. It is already too late, Lovelock says, to prevent the global climate from "flipping" into an entirely new equilibrium that will threaten civilization as we know it. But we can do much to save humanity. In the tradition of "Silent Spring," this is a call to address a major threat to our collective future.

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A gripping book outlining a 'newly discovered' perspective on the biosphere of our planet, expanding Darvin's theory of evolution itself. As excited as the idea might be, The Revenge of Gaia takes its reader on a sad journey, describing human blindness and greed, the decay of the current natural equilibrium and the fall of all habitats as we known them. The book is not just a depressive rant on how much we've messed up as a species. Lovelock goes into great detail trying to find possible

Oh dear. James Lovelock is largely rehashing what he's said before but a couple of disturbing aspects of his thinking also come to light. One: in terms of energy, civilisation must continue business as usual, hence his support of nuclear power. Two, and what made me stop at his take on DDT: humans still take precedence over all other creatures. So DDT is good and sod all the birds who die or can't breed because of it.This book seems to be all over the place too, with no central narrative thrust.

I dont thin lovelock needs to write a perfect book, only continue to fame his beautiful, but unproveable theory and spell the doom and gloom ahead. His tirades against cancer and his clear Anglo-centrism aside, I share his realism and heed his warnings, even this long thereafter. Shame more havent sounded such a clear alarm and I think that spells our doom.



An interesting book with some scary and memorable passages. Lovelock invented the Gaia hypothesis (the idea that the whole biosphere is essentially one living organism). Here, he's addressing the problems of climate change, and what we can do about it. "I'm a doctor," he says. "The Earth is my patient, and it's running a temperature." Lovelock used to be against nuclear power, but now he thinks it's our only chance. We have to bring down CO2 emissions fast, and we can't quickly wean ourselves

There was a lot about this which made a lot of sense - Lovelock's discussions of energy generation (esp. with regards nuclear power and the flaws of several 'renewable' sources) and pollution was interesting and intelligent, and the author writes engagingly without oversimplifying. I would recommend much of this message to be read by a great many folks too ignorant of the impact of human activity on our planet.I was however rather less enamoured by the central 'Gaia' hypothesis, and by a number

Its great to read a book written by someone with a scientific mind. The whole flow and timing of the words, the thoughts, are different. Stately, measured, calm. Reading such writing actually slows you down. I couldnt rush through this book; its rhythm dictated mine; I couldnt speed read and skip descriptive words and sentences like I do with non-fiction books. There was elegance. Makes a convincing argument for nuclear power. In the face of what might come which he sees as a threat to