A Rough Ride to the Future
$31.89
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2015
Summary
A radical vision of humanity’s future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system, from the great scientific visionary of our age. This book introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that 300 years ago the invention of the steam engine unknowingly began a process which is bringing about change on our planet roughly a million times faster than Darwinian evolution. The second is that as part of this process, humanity has the capacity to become the directing intelligence of Gaia, the self…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241961414 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241961416 |
| Author: | James Lovelock |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 157g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
James Lovelock
Elected to the Royal Society in 1974, James Lovelock is the originator of Gaia Theory. His many books include Gaia- A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), and The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009). In 2003 he was made a Royal Companion of Honour, in 2005 Prospect placed him among the world’s top 100 public intellectuals, and in 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal.
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