James Lovelock Knihy

Dobře zdokumentovaná kniha, jejímž autorem je zakladatel EFN (Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy Ekologové pro jadernou energii), představuje nový přístup k energetickým potřebám planety a předkládá jednoduchá fakta odpovídající na vaše otázky: o existenci radioaktivity v přírodě, o relativním významu přírodní radiace, použití radioaktivního záření v medicíně, vojenství a průmyslu a jeho účincích na zdraví, o devastujícím znečištění našeho životního prostředí při razantním spalování fosilních paliv (nafta, plyn, uhlí) a jiných.

Lovelock first began thinking that the planet resembles a living entity in the 1960s, while working for a NASA project on how to detect life on Mars. While other scientists suggested elaborate tests involving space probes to check for microbes in Martian soil, Lovelock said to save the rocket fuel, we didn't even need to bother going there. Life, he theorized, would leave its telltale signature in a planet's atmosphere. There would be chemicals or elements that shouldn't be there but for the existence of something unusual, like living things. Anyone looking at the Earth from afar could tell right away that it had to harbour life because its atmosphere is loaded with oxygen, a gas so chemically reactive it shouldn't exist at all in any quantity. -- from http://www.theglobeandmail.com (Dec. 17, 2015)

For millennia, humankind has exploited the Earth without counting the cost. Now, as the world warms and weather patterns dramatically change, the Earth is beginning to fight back. James Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking, argues passionately and poetically that, although global warming is now inevitable, we are not yet too late to save at least part of human civilization. This short book, written at the age of eighty-six after a lifetime engaged in the science of the earth, is his testament.

The Gaia hypothesis, first put forth in the mid-1960s, and published in book form in 1975, explores the idea that the life of earth functions as a single organism which actually defines and maintains conditions necessary for its survival. Disclaiming the conventional belief that living matter reacts passively in the face of threats to its existence, Lovelock argues that the earth's living matter - air, ocean, and land surfaces - forms a complex system which has the capacity to keep our planet a fit place for life. Now reissued with an updated preface which discusses how Lovelock's predictions have already begun to hold true, Gaia has dramatically altered the way scientists view evolution and the environment.

Since James Lovelock's first book, Gaia, was published, much scientific work has confirmed his theory that the Earth and all living things are part of one great organism. The Ages of Gaia looks at this evidence in detail and has been updated and revised throughout in this second edition. In his discussion of scientific and environmental issues he sounds a warning of the damage man is doing to the health of the planet.

The originator of the Gaia theory offers the vision of a future epoch in which humans and artificial intelligence together will help the Earth survive.

Profesor James Lovelock se v 70. letech minulého století proslavil svou teorií, podle níž geosféra, atmosféra a biosféra na Zemi tvoří provázaný systém, na který můžeme pohlížet jako na jediný živý organismus. Tento organismus pojmenoval Gaia po řecké bohyni, stvořitelce Zemi. Kniha přináší propracovanou teorii obsahující mimo jiné i katastrofické vize dalšího možného vývoje planety.

The Gaia hypothesis, first put forth in the mid-1960s, and published in book form in 1975, explores the idea that the life of earth functions as a single organism which actually defines and maintains conditions necessary for its survival. Disclaiming the conventional belief that living matter reacts passively in the face of threats to its existence, Lovelock argues that the earth's living matter - air, ocean, and land surfaces - forms a complex system which has the capacity to keep our planet a fit place for life. Now reissued with an updated preface which discusses how Lovelock's predictions have already begun to hold true, Gaia has dramatically altered the way scientists view evolution and the environment.

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One of today's most influential environmentalists tells the fascinating storyof his life as a self-made inventor and scientist.