Animate earth : science, intuition and Gaia / Stephan Harding ; foreword by Lynn Margulis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harding, Stephan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gaia hypothesis.

Geology--Popular works.

Geology.

Earth (Planet).

Genre:

Popular works.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 2006.

Summary:

How Gaian science can help us to develop a sense of connectedness with the ?more-than-human? world. Dr. Stephan Harding, a long time collaborator of James Lovelock, replaces the cold, objectifying language of science with a way of speaking of our planet as a sentient, living being, not a dead, inert mechanism. Animate Earth argues that we need to establish a right relationship with the planet as a living entity in which we are embedded?and to which, in the final analysis, we are all accountable. The book inspires the reader to connect with a profound sense of the value of the Earth, and to discover what it means to live as harmoniously as possible within a sentient creature of planetary proportions.

Contents:

1 Anima Mundi 15

2 Encountering Gaia 40

3 From Gaia Hypothesis to Gaia Theory 62

4 Life and the Elements 86

5 Carbon Journeys 105

6 Life, Clouds and Gaia 130

7 From Microbes to Cell Giants 151

8 Desperate Earth 182

9 Gaia and Biodiversity 204

10 In Service to Gaia 223.

Notes:

"A Sciencewriters book."

Originally published: London : Green, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [246]-250) and index.

ISBN:

1933392290

OCLC:

73499083