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Gaia - A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
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Gaia - A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
Series: The Macat Library
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Gaia: A New Look At Life on Earth may continue to divide opinion,
but nobody can deny that the book offers a powerful insight into
the creative thinking of its author, James E. Lovelock. Published
in 1979, Gaia offered a radically new hypothesis: the Earth,
Lovelock argued, is a living entity. Together, the planet and all
its separate living organisms form a single self-regulating body,
sustaining life and helping it evolve through time. Lovelock sees
humans as no more special than other elements of the planet,
railing against the once widely-held belief that the good of
mankind is the only thing that matters. Despite being seen as
radical, and even idiotic on its publication, a version of
Lovelock's viewpoint has found resonance in contemporary debates
about the environment and climate, and has now broadly come to be
accepted by modern thinkers. As man's effects on the climate become
increasingly extreme, more and more elements of the Earth's
self-regulation seem to be unveiled - forcing scientists to ask how
far the planet might be able to go in order self-regulate
effectively. Indeed, despite its far-fetched elements, Lovelock's
Gaia thesis seems to ring more convincingly today than ever before;
that it does is largely a result of the critical thinking skills
that allowed Lovelock to produce novel explanations for existing
evidence and, above all, to connect existing fragments of evidence
together in new ways.
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