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The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warningby James Lovelock
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called “green” products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In Surviving Gaia’s Revenge, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent “hot state”—and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse the process; the planet is simply too overpopulated to halt its own destruction by greenhouse gases. In order to survive, mankind must start preparing now for life on a radically changed planet. The meliorist approach outlined in the Kyoto Treaty must be abandoned in favor of nuclear energy and aggressive agricultural development on the small areas of earth that will remain arable. A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movement’s elder statesmen, Surviving Gaia’s Revenge offers an essential wake-up call for the human race. Review:"Lovelock (The Revenge of Gaia) presents evidence of a dire future for our planet. The controversial originator of Gaia theory (which views Earth as a self-regulating, evolving system made of 'organisms, the surface rocks, the ocean and the atmosphere' with the goal 'always to be as favorable for contemporary life as possible') proposes an even more inconvenient truth than Al Gore's. No voluntary human act can reduce our numbers fast enough even to slow climate change.' Nevertheless, human civilization has a 'duty to survive' in the few safe havens — the far north and south, islands like Great Britain and Tasmania — free from the drought that will overtake most of the Earth. While Lovelock's propensity to ramble is disconcerting, his predictions are persuasive — although some readers will be appalled by his contention that democracy may need to be abandoned to appropriately confront the challenge." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:A preeminent environmental scientist contends that it's too late to reverse global warming--and argues that mankind must prepare to adapt to a very hot future. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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