James Lovelock`s bestselling ” The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back
- & How we can Still Save Humanity” is a dire warning against the unchecked growth of civilization. ` Despite all our efforts to retreat sustainably, we may be unable to prevent a global decline into a chaotic world ruled by brutal warlords on a devastated Earth...` For thousands of years, humans have exploited the planet without counting the cost. Now Gaia, the living Earth, is fighting back. As the polar icecaps shrink & the global temperature rises, we approach the point of no return. Sustainable development, Lovelock argues, is no longer possible, & the only open to us may be a `sustainable retreat`. This is the one book you must read to find out what is happening, how bad it will get
- & how we can survive. ” The most important book for decades”. (Andrew Marr). ” The most important book ever to be published on the environmental crisis... Lovelock will go down in history as the scientist who changed our view of the Earth”. (John Gray, ” Independent”). ” Truly terrifying... Lovelock`s arguments carry more conviction than anyone else`s now writing”. (Peter Forbes, ” Daily Mail”). James Lovelock is the author of more than 200 scientific papers & the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). He has written several books on the subject, including ” Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth”, ” The Ages of Gaia” & ” The Vanishing Face of Gaia” as well as an autobiography, ” Homage to Gaia”. In September 2005 ” Prospect” magazine named him as one of the world`s top 100 global public intellectuals.