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"Lovelock will go down in history as the scientist who changed
our view of the Earth.... ?The Revenge of Gaia is the most
important book ever to be published on the environmental crisis."
-- John Gray
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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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James Lovelock is the originator of Gaia Theory, on which he
has written several books. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society in 1974. He has received honorary Doctorates in Science
from seven universities in England, Sweden, and the United States.
He was made a C.B.E. in 1990, and in 2003 a Companion of Honour by
Her Majesty the Queen. He lives in Cornwall, Britain.
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