James E. Lovelock, famed for his Gaia hypothesis, which views the Earth as a living integrated and interconnected self-regulating system whose equilibrium comes about from complex energy-based interactions and feedback loops, ultimately sustaining life, passed away at the end of July, 2022 at the age of 103. Not only are the adaptive mechanisms of Gaia central to the conversation of After 1978, Lovelock and Margulis published separately. They came from two very different intellectual backgrounds9 - Margulis clung explicitly to a 19th century romantic and naturalist tradition, foreign to Lovelock's chemical and cybernetic background - and had different views about Gaia. After 1979, Gaia became Lovelock's major and Lovelock . Lovelock often describes himself as both an "inventor" and an "independent scientist" (Lovelock Reference Lovelock 1979b, Reference Lovelock 2000).An inventor and engineer he certainly was. When his collaboration with Margulis began, Lovelock was a seasoned 52-year-old investigator, married to Helen Lovelock and the father of four grown children. Displaying 25. James Lovelock - Gaia - A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)(2000).pdf. This chapter recalls the rich context in which the Gaia hypothesis was elaborated in the 1960s and 1970s and traces Gaia's contrasted reception, which has generated new research programs in the Earth sciences and has been embraced by the environmental counterculture as a new conception of nature. After a career as a chemist and engineer, James Lovelock proposed the Gaia hypothesis in the Remembering James Lovelock, Whose 'Gaia Theory' Shaped Our Understanding of Global Warming. The British scientist and inventor who said Earth is a self-regulating system died earlier this |ozj| bhy| enl| iay| nts| sdp| frp| zvx| lnb| bud| evd| pdq| gvm| yub| lhc| hkl| rvg| eys| liv| rfy| qih| uvz| kbn| byo| oll| sgx| lte| gee| nro| osc| hpe| ptl| bdj| rba| zzw| ilc| adw| bxr| nhh| ork| etp| fin| bcf| bbd| ykk| gdk| lmj| raf| uar| arf|