The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 256 pages, 8pp colour

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN:9780141025971

Published:22 Feb 2007

Weight:194g

Dimensions:197 x 130 x 15 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

詹姆斯·拉夫洛克的畅销书《盖亚的复仇:地球为何反击——以及我们如何仍能拯救人类》是对文明不受遏制的发展发出的可怕警告。

他说，尽管我们付出了所有努力以可持续的方式撤退，但我们可能无法阻止全球衰退，进入一个由残暴军阀统治、满目疮痍的世界……

几千年来，人类一直在开发地球，没有计算成本。现在盖亚，这个充满活力的地球，正在反击。随着极地冰盖的缩小和全球气温的上升，我们接近了不可逆转的临界点。拉夫洛克认为，可持续发展已经不可能了，w一的出路可能就是“可持续撤退”。你必须读这本书来了解正在发生的事情，它会变得多么糟糕，以及我们如何生存。

James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and 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 and the global temperature rises, we approach the point of no return. Sustainable development, Lovelock argues, is no longer possible, and 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 - and 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

作者简介

詹姆斯·洛夫洛克，CH，CBE，FRS（James Ephraim Lovelock，1919年7月26日－）是一位英国科学家，环境领域的主要作家，被誉为世界环境科学宗师。盖亚假说的提出者。在他的假说中，地球被视为一个“超级有机体”（superorganism）。在《盖娅的复仇》中，他发表对地球环境的*新评估，再次向人类敲响警钟。洛夫洛克认为，如果人类不及早停止对环境的滥用，使得地球过了能够扭转气候改变的临界点，地球和人类文明可能面临大规模自然灾难。

James Lovelock, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009) and A Rough Ride to the Future (2014). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour and in 2005 Prospect magazine named him one of the world's t*p 100 intellectuals, and in 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest Award of the UK Geological Society.