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The Revenge of Gaia
Lovelock's 2006 climate warning — the book in which he argued that the climate perturbation had already exceeded the biosphere's regulatory capacity, and that the feedback mechanisms which had maintained habitable conditions for billions of years were being overwhelmed.
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back — and How We Can Still Save Humanity marked a dramatic intensification of Lovelock's public position on climate change. Drawing on three decades of research into biogeochemical feedback mechanisms, Lovelock argued that anthropogenic carbon emission had pushed the biosphere past a threshold beyond which its self-regulatory mechanisms could no longer produce corrective responses. The system would eventually find a new equilibrium, but the transition would be catastrophic for the organisms adapted to the current one — including, potentially, human civilization. The book was controversial within the environmental movement, which found Lovelock's prognosis too pessimistic and his prescriptions — including enthusiastic support for nuclear power — ideologically uncomfortable. Lovelock was not a conventional environmentalist. He was a Gaian, and his prescriptions followed from the framework rather than from the movement's existing commitments.
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