The vanishing face of gaia : a final warning
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The vanishing face of gaia : a final warning
Basic Books, c2009
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The journey in space and time
- The climate forecast
- Consequences and survival
- Energy and food sources
- Geoengineering
- The history of gaia theory
- Perceptions of gaia
- To be or not to be green
- To the next world
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Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called green products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent hot state - and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse the process; the planet is simply too overpopulated to halt its own destruction by greenhouse gases. In order to survive, mankind must start preparing now for life on a radically changed planet. The meliorist approach outlined in the Kyoto Treaty must be abandoned in favor of nuclear energy and aggressive agricultural development on the small areas of earth that will remain arable. A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movements elder statesmen, The Vanishing Face of Gaia offers an essential wake-up call for the human race.
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