"[James] Lovelock, I continue to be believe, did discover something – about how our unstable atmosphere is stabilized, about how clouds are made, about how land creatures get the iodine they need, and, ultimately, about the kind of world that we live in – a world that makes itself and will in time re-make itself without us, should we render it uninhabitable for creatures like us."

#DavidCayley, 2021

https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2021/4/1/gaia-and-the-path-of-the-earth

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@davidho

My take is that Lovelock was really good at developing methods and analytical instruments, but that his views on society need to be taken with a handful of salt.
Lovelock voiced at an older age (or at least, afaik) some rather ... controversial opinions about geoengineering, nuclear power, collapse, and civilization

[it's about everybody] "absolutely doing their utmost to sustain civilization, so that it doesn't degenerate into Dark Ages",

which at least has some flavours of Western supremacy.

It sounds very appropriate to learn about his biography to understand where he came from.

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