For the past several years, James Lovelock, has proposed the use of nuclear power plants as the solution to the problem of greenhouse gases, and their impact on the earth’s temperature. In fact he suggests that huge nuclear plants are the only way to go to solve the greenhouse gas problem, and the increasing need for energy throughout the world. Naturally, this has created a firestorm of opposition, especially from environmentalists, the very group that embraced Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis, which he co-proposed with Dr. Lynn Margulis, a biologist at the University of Massachusetts. The Gaia Hypothesis holds that Earth’s physical and biological processes are linked to form a complex, self-regulating system and that life has affected this system over time. The hypothesis, at first, was rejected by the scientific community, but gained favor over time, and in fact was the subject of a book published by MIT entitled “Scientists Debate Gaia.” The Gaia hypothesis was a central concept in environmental mainstream earth system science literature over the past twenty years.

James Lovelock’s new book, “The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back — and How We Can Still Save Humanity,” proposes that the only way to stem the tide of Earth’s global heating (he prefers heating to warming) to embrace science and technology. One of his ideas that centers in on using nuclear power rather than continuing to use fossil fuel burning systems.