The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock

James Lovelock wrote a book titled The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity. In the first chapter, Lovelock describes how he personally feels about the “Earth’s declining health” (Lovelock, 2). The Earth is a living organism in great danger due to climate change, tribal carnivores, and natural-habitat destruction. Lovelock argues that the way the population treats the Earth needs to change immediately and drastically. Humans have exposed the earth to high pollutions of natural gas, fossil fuels, and destroyed primeval forests primarily thinking of only themselves no matter the damage it may cause. This is tribal carnivores. As Lovelock stated, “We have to take global warming serious and immediately and then do our best to lessen the foot-print of humans on the Earth” (Lovelock, 15).The population needs believe that global warming is real and as a whole lessen the harm that humans has placed and is currently placing upon the Earth.
The population must treat the Earth as a sickly patient and give it the medicine to recover. In Lovelock’s opinion, nuclear-fusion energy is an effective temporally medication to repair the sickly Earth. However, “even if they [scientist] are right about its [nuclear-fusion] dangers, and they are not, its use as a secure, safe and reliable source of energy would pose a threat insignificantly compared with the real threat intolerable and lethal heat waves and sea levels rising to threaten ever coastal city of the world” (Lovelock, 14). Nuclear-fusion can be the energy source that protects the Earth, however, just like other energies there are consequences. Its threats on the Earth are not as bad as the Earth’s possible damage if nothing is done. Also, nations need to consider “our future food and energy supplies can no longer be taken as secure from a world that is devastating by climate change” (Lovelock, 17). The larger populations must begin to strategize how to save themselves, but also keep the Earth in mind; they must work together to provide for each other.