James Lovelock: Darwin’s heir

James Lovelock’s blunt predictions of global climate disaster were once seen as exaggerated, but he understood what was really happening.

We are far off course for curing our problems, as James Lovelock (pictured in 2002) well knew, but he has given us the vital context of a self-regulating Gaian system. Without that, we wouldn’t even know where to start trying to mend the damage we have done, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 3, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—James Lovelock was a late bloomer. His first book, Gaia: a New Look at Life on Earth, was published in 1979, when he was already 60 years old. By the time he died on July 26, on his 103rd birthday, he had written 10 more books on Gaia, the hypothesis that has evolved into the...

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