LoveLock & Gaia Signs Of Life By Jon Turney

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Jon Turney (Hardcover)
9781840464580

In the 1960s, an English scientist names James Lovelock formulated a controversial explanation: Earth is alive. Telling the story of this pioneer and his struggle to gain respectability, this book explains how Lovelock's hypothesis is gradually ushering in a scientific revolution.
How is it possible that Earth's atmospheric temperature has remained perfectly suited to supporting life for billions of years? Why do oxygen levels in the atmosphere remain relatively stable when only a minuscule increase would cause everything on Earth to spontaneously combust? Why are the oceans salty, but not salty enough to make them uninhabitable? In the 1960s, an English scientist names James Lovelock formulated a groundbreaking and highly controversial explanation: Earth is alive.