The Revenge Of Gaia - Why The Earth Is Fighting Back -And How We Can Still Save Humanity - Lovelock James

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Résumé :
Gaia", the living Earth, is old and not as strong as she was two billion years ago. She struggles to keep the Earth cool enough for her myriad forms id life against the ineluctable increase of the sun's heat. But to add to her difficulties, one of those forms of life, humans, disputations tribal animals with dreams of conquest even of other planets, has tried to rule the Earth for their benefit alone...

Biographie:
James Lovelock is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). He has written three books on the subject: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, The Ages of Gaia and Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine, as well as an autobiography, Homage to Gaia. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1974. Since 1961 he has worked as a wholly independent scientist but retained links with universities in the UK and USA, and since 1994 has been an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Green College, University of Oxford. He has been described as `one of the great thinkers of our time' (New Scientist) and `one of the environmental movement's most influential figures' (Observer). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen, and in September 2005 Prospect magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global public intellectuals.