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作者： James Lovelock著

出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House

出版时间：字数：版次：页数： 176印刷时间：开本： 32开印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780713999143包装： 精装内容简介

In The Revenge of Gaia, bestselling author James Lovelock- father of climate studies and originator of the influential Gaia theory which views the entire earth as a living meta-organism-provides a definitive look at our imminent global crisis. In this disturbing new book, Lovelock guides us toward a hard reality: soon, we may not be able to alter the oncoming climate crisis. Lovelock’s influential Gaia theory, one of the building blocks of modern climate science, conceives of the Earth, including the atmosphere, oceans, biosphere and upper layers of rock, as a single living super-organism, regulating its internal environment much as an animal regulates its body temperature and chemical balance. But now, says Lovelock, that organism is sick. It is running a fever born of the combination of a sun whose intensity is slowly growing over millions of years, and an atmosphere whose greenhouse gases have recently spiked due to human activity. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but on time scales measured in the hundreds of millennia. It is already too late, Lovelock says, to prevent the global climate from “flipping” into an entirely new equilibrium state that will leave the tropics uninhabitable, and force migration to the poles. The Revenge of Gaia explains the stress the planetary system is under and how humans are contributing to it, what the consequences will be, and what humanity must do to rescue itself.

作者简介：

James Lovelock is the originator of Gaia Theory, on which he has written several books. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. He has received honorary Doctorates in Science from seven universities in England, Sweden, and the United States. He was made a C.B.E. in 1990, and in 2003 a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen. He lives in Cornwall, Britain.

目录

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Sir Crispin Tickell

1 The State of the Earth

2 What is Gaia?

3 The Life History of Gaia

4 Forecasts for the Twenty-first Century

5 Sources of Energy

6 Chemicals, Food and Raw Materials

7 Technology for a Sustainable Retreat

8 A Personal View of Environmentalism

9 Beyond the Terminus

Glossary

Further Reading

Index

 

 

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