Who is James Lovelock
James Ephraim Lovelock (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.With a PhD in medicine, Lovelock began his career performing cryopreservation experiments on rodents, including successfully thawing frozen specimens. His methods were influential in the theories of cryonics (the cryopreservation of humans). He invented the electron capture detector, and using it, became the first to detect the widespread presence of chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere. While designing scientific instruments for NASA, he developed the Gaia hypothesis.In the 2000s, he proposed a method of climate engineering to restore ...
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- If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
- Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
- What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.
- I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
- Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
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0_4qla: new book day: james lovelock’s “gaia” and sepp holzer’s “permaculture”.Catoletters: james lovelock, inventor of the gaia hypothesis which underpins much of modern environmentalism, now thinks global warming is a religion.
Profegreg: james lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
Cprecambs: jj is absolutely spot on. j k galbraith, e f schumacher and james lovelock all warned of this many years ago and all have been ignored. the climate wars have started. gwynne dyer climate wars (2008) isbn 978-0-307-35583-6
Tribalisation: r.i.p. dr. james lovelock, discoverer of gaia theory for humanity. his theory implies that all species act subconsciously as one superorganism. humanity is fulfilling an ecological role for a scubconscioua purpose. but what can the role be for such an ecocidal species? thread 1/
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John Cranmer: Crystallized Rebecomings **
Gaia!
Lay me deep within the earth
Buried deep within your tectonic infoldings
In those Places
squeezed within the intensity of subduction
In those Places
that welcome the uprising of volcanic fury
Finding your Place
of deep-time gestational transformation
Held in your Secret Womb Mysteries
of crystallized recastings
Holding my age-long awareness
strong within your hiddenness
Awaiting translucent emergings
as you open up your Rich Gem Wonders
to the light of our shared Sun
** Remembering the moving on of
James Lovelock on his 103rd Birthday
John Cranmer : Crystallized Rebecomings **
Gaia!
Lay me deep within the earth
Buried deep within your tectonic infoldings
In those Places
squeezed within the intensity of subduction
In those Places
that welcome the uprising of volcanic fury
Finding your Place
of deep-time gestational transformation
Held in your Secret Womb Mysteries
of crystallized recastings
Holding my age-long awareness
strong within your hiddenness
Awaiting translucent emergings
as you open up your Rich Gem Wonders
to the light of our shared Sun
** Remembering the moving on of
James Lovelock on his 103rd Birthday
