Author: Lovelock, James

The key insight of James Lovelock's Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to Lovelock, that organism is now running a fever caused by increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a severe test. It is already too late to prevent the global climate from "flipping"into an entirely new equilibrium that will threaten civilization as we know it. But we can do much to save humanity. 192 pp.