JAMES LOVELOCK, GAIA THEORY and THE LONDON SCIENCE MUSEUM

My own environmental awareness crystallized in the late eighties, early nineties with James Lovelock’s book, The Ages of Gaia (Oxford Univ. Press, 1988), a biography of the earth as a living, self-regulating organism, a product of its own history. The theory was radical and largely dismissed by the establishment science community who understood man as an object somehow independent of...