The Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning

by Lovelock, James

• ISBN13: 9780465019076
• ISBN10: 0465019072
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-27
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

The global temperature is rising, the polar ice-caps are melting, water shortages and climatic disasters are increasingly common, and carbon dioxide levels have reached unprecedented heights. There is little humans can do to reverse these developments; the planet is simply too polluted and overpopulated.

Author Biography

James Lovelock is the author of more than two hundred scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). In September 2005, Prospect magazine named him as one of the world’s top 100 global public intellectuals. He lives in Louceston, England.

Table of Contents

Forward	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
The Journey in Space and Time	p. 1
The Climate Forecast	p. 35
Consequences and Survival	p. 71
Energy and Food Sources	p. 99
Geoengineering	p. 139
The History of Gaia Theory	p. 159
Perceptions of Gaia	p. 187
To Be or Not To Be Green	p. 205
To the Next World	p. 229
Glossary	p. 251
Further Reading	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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