Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning

Name: Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning
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ISBN: 9780465015498

ISBN-10: 0465015492

ISBN-13: 9780465015498

Edition: 2008

Authors: James Lovelock

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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. InSurviving Gaia's Revenge, 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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 4/14/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Acknowledgments



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


Glossary


Further Reading


Index