The ages of Gaia - James Lovelock
a biography of our living Earth
KORTE INHOUD
In this book, Lovelock elaborates the basis of a new and unified view of the earth and life sciences, discussing recent developments in detail: the greenhouse effect, acid rain, the depletion of the ozone layer and the effects of ultraviolet radiation, the emission of CFCs, and nuclear power. He demonstrates the geophysical interaction of atmosphere, oceans, climate, and the Earth's crust, regulated comfortably for life by living organisms using the energy of the sun.
But Gaia is not always the benign life-force many people have taken her to be: 'Gaia theory forces a planetary perspective. It is the health of the planet that matters, not that of some individual species of organisms. This is where Gaia and the environmental movements, which are concerned first with the health of people, part company.' This hypothesis not only raises profound philosophical and religious questions: it also challenges both conservationists and the scientific establishment to think again.
'Open the cover and bathe in great draughts ...
But Gaia is not always the benign life-force many people have taken her to be: 'Gaia theory forces a planetary perspective. It is the health of the planet that matters, not that of some individual species of organisms. This is where Gaia and the environmental movements, which are concerned first with the health of people, part company.' This hypothesis not only raises profound philosophical and religious questions: it also challenges both conservationists and the scientific establishment to think again.
'Open the cover and bathe in great draughts ...
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