The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
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盖亚时代：我们地球的传记
DOI：
10.5860/choice.27-0285
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发表时间：
1988
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
J. Lovelock
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作者：
J. Lovelock
1986年，英国广播公司第二台的“地平线”节目为吉姆·洛夫洛克（Jim Lovelock）令人震惊的新生命理论盖亚（Gaia）赢得了许多新的追随者。现有的理论认为，植物和动物是在一个无生命的星球上进化的，但与之不同。然而，盖亚表明，地球，它的岩石，海洋和大气层，以及所有生物都是一个伟大有机体的一部分，在漫长的地质时间中共同进化。自从他的第一本书《盖亚：地球生命的新视角》出版以来，吉姆·洛夫洛克的理论已经被许多科学工作所证实。在这本新书中，他阐述了地球和生命科学的新的统一观点，并详细讨论了最近的发展：温室效应，酸雨，臭氧层的消耗和紫外线辐射的影响，CFC的排放和核能。他以想象中的星球Daisyworld为模型，展示了大气、海洋、气候和地壳之间的地球物理相互作用，这些相互作用通过生物体利用太阳能来调节，以实现舒适的生活。然而，盖娅并不总是像许多人认为的那样是一种良性的生命力量：重要的是地球的健康，而不是某些生物物种的福利。这就是盖亚和关注人们健康的环保运动的地方。这种说法提出了深刻的哲学和宗教问题，洛夫洛克在“上帝和盖亚”一章中处理了这些问题。“在盖亚，我们只是另一个物种，既不是这个星球的主人，也不是这个星球的管家。我们的未来更多地取决于与盖亚的正确关系，而不是人类利益的永无止境的戏剧。''打开盖子，呼吸大量的新鲜空气，这令人兴奋地证明了“地球是活的”。“观察员，环保主义者，任何对地球科学感兴趣的人，进化论，理查德·道金斯的读者。
BBC 2's 1986 "Horizon" programme won many new followers for Jim Lovelock's startling new theory of life called Gaia. Existing theories held that plants and animals evolve on, but are distinct from, an inanimate planet. Gaia, however, showed that the Earth, its rocks, oceans, and atmosphere, and all living things are part of one great organism, evolving together over the vast span of geological time. Since the appearance of his first book, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth , Jim Lovelock's theory has been confirmed by much scientific work. In this new book he elaborates on a new and unified view of the Earth and life sciences, and discusses recent developments in some detail: the greenhouse effect, acid rain, the depletion of the ozone layer and the effects of ultra-violet radiation, the emission of CFCs, and nuclear power. Using the imaginary planet Daisyworld as a model, he demonstrates the geophysical interaction of atmosphere, oceans, climate, and the Earth's crust, regulated for comfortable life by living organisms using the energy of the sun. Yet Gaia is not always the benign life-force many people have taken her to be: it is the health of the planet that matters, not the welfare of some individual species of organisms. This is where Gaia and the environmental movements concerned with the health of people part company. This assertion raises profound philosophical and religious questions which Lovelock tackles in a chapter on 'God and Gaia'. 'In Gaia we are just another species, neither the owners nor the stewards of this planet. Our future depends much more upon a right relationship with Gaia than with the never-ending drama of human interest.' `Open the cover and breathe in great draughts of fresh air that excitingly argue the case that "the earth is alive".' Observer General, environmentalists, anyone interested in earth sciences, theories of evolution, readers of Richard Dawkins.