Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780141025971
ISBN: 0141025972
Label: Penguin
Manufacturer: Penguin
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: February 22, 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Studio: Penguin

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Rating: - A Fabulous Grumpy Old Man
I remember first hearing James Lovelock's Gaia theory (that the Earth is a self regulating entity) on the BBC in the 1970's and thinking it was quite convincing. I was really disappointed reading this book to find that he seems to have very little additional evidence for Gaia after nearly 40 years. This lack of hard science behind Gaia undermines the authority of the book. As a result it reads like a fabulous and fabulously well researched grumpy old man rant.

Lovelock has a go at just ... Read More

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Rating: - Essential Reading
We should salute the (now) 89 -year-old author, James Ephraim Lovelock (Ephraim is Hebrew for fruitful): an independent, dissenting voice in science. Rebelling against reductionist philosophies, he took an inclusive, systems view of the planet, publishing his Gaia Hypothesis in 1970. It took over 30 years for the international scientific community to come round.

Having studied chemistry at Manchester U and received his PhD in medicine at London U, Lovelock was engaged in the 1960s by NASA ... Read More

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Rating: - Sentimental nonsense
Nature is simply indifferent to our fate: it is neither malicious, nor benevolent. If humanity's time is up, it's up. We won't be the first species to die, nor the last. Let the polar bears look after themselves. Carpe diem.

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Rating: - Forget Windfarms - Go Nuclear!
I first read "The Revenge of Gaia" two years ago, when it was published. By early 2006, of course, we were all becoming aware of a progressively strident chorus about the imminent catastrophe that global warming was going to cause and how there was a scientific consensus on the matter. Lovelock was the first book I read on the subject.

I was suitably alarmed by Lovelock's analysis, and particularly by his identification of "tipping points", whereby a relatively modest increase in temperature ... Read More

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Rating: - Essential
This book served as my introduction to the concept of Gaia. A friend suggested I should read it and politely I agreed. Quite simply, Lovelock's arguement makes a lot of sense and the messages conveyed within the volume should be considered by all. Especially politicians and (well meaning) greens. Only this week the news was dominated by debate regarding a new fossil fuel power station. This book clearly explains why this must not happen (ever) and presents the alternatives available now and those that will ... Read More

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