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The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity
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James Lovelock
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Product Details
- Author: James Lovelock
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- Binding: Paperback
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- Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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- EAN: 9780465041695
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- ISBN: 0465041698
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- Label: Basic Books
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- Language: English
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- Manufacturer: Basic Books
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Number of Pages: 208
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- Product Group: Book
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- Publication Date: 2007-06-04
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- Publisher: Basic Books
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- Studio: Basic Books
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- Title: The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity
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Product Description: 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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Customer Reviews
Revenge of Gaia
This book was bought for my husband. He liked it very much. He had borrowed it from the library and wanted his own copy.
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Lovelock's Disease
Bad science incorrect facts and statistics underpinned by the ludicrous Gaia hypothesis . Luckily I will be around to see that he will be as wrong about the nature , magnitude and likely future impacts of Global Warming as he was in the 1970's about Global Cooling . A complete waste of money !
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Very good book for every one interested in the environment
Though several thought in the book are controversial, some facts are exaggerated while others aren't mentioned, I found this book very interesting and useful.
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The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's CLimate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
I liked the review up until the point when I read that Lovelock was "vigorously" advocating nuclear power as part of the solution to the earth's "fever" (global warming). Living in New Mexico where I have seen (and fought against) first hand impacts of uranium mining and milling (the necessary ingredient in nuclear plants) on the Navajo people and the former miners, their widows, the children exposed to radioactive wastes from the processes, the entire culture, land, and water, I cannot bring myself to buy this book. Surely Lovelock must know the dire consequences to the southwest especially from uranium development! nuclear power plants don't just fall out of the sky.... conservation, efficiency, renewables,CAFE standards for vehicles, public transit is the only path I can support.. Lynda Taylor, New Mexico I will pass on the book.
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A must read
This book should be a mandatory read for everyone who claims to be a member of the earth's "dominant species". The content is entirely readable for anyone with reasonable command of the English language. As one who has spent seventy nine years on this planet - much of it in the out-of-doors, I can say, with sincerity, that I believe the message to be REALITY....and that we owe it to our descendants to bite the bullet and at least begin making the effort to undo the horrific desecration that we have perpetrated, and are perpetrating on the only home that humankind has in this universe.
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