The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity

The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity
by James Lovelock

The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity
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Author: James Lovelock
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2007-06-04
ISBN: 0465041698
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Basic Books

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Book Review: The Revenge of Lovelock - Me, Myself & I
Summary: 3 Stars

For all his impressive curriculum, Mr. Lovelock seems much more interested here in vindicating his achievements than in advancing his views on the future of Nature.

He has got some very interesting arguments and reasonings, but the value of the book is terribly depleted by his simplifications and deliberate obscuring of reality, if not worse. Such a well informed scientist must be aware of many of the mendacities he slips in his books (like his gross misinterpretation of mortality due to nuclear radiation statistics) but he seems to chose effect over truth, probably in the name of the greater good of Gaia.

What he doesn't like he rejects peremptorily. (wind mills breaking the verticality of air????) But only an Englishman would suggest to substitute synthetic stuff for real food. We know it doesn't make a hell of a difference in the Islands but what about us, the rest of humans.

The problem with this kind of illuminated scientists is that they are virtual dictators. They know better than the world and anyway, there's no time for discussion, so everybody do like I say. If I was wrong, well, there was nothing to loose, you were all doomed, anyway. And you will be better off with a few simplified facts I'll provide you with than having to think by yourselves.

Considering his shameless bragging about the importance of his doublessly great inventions, one is tempted to think that his pronuclear stance is only his way to be (even) more ?patant.

Anyway, the book has rich food for thought and simplification does have some merits, so there go three stars for the short gentleman at the back yes, the one with the white hair.

Summary of The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity

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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