Let Gaia do it?

Vanishing Face of Gaia, 3-5

1. Why does James Lovelock call efforts to stabilize CO2 and global temperature "no better than planetary alternative medicine"?

2. What does the normal respiration of earth's inhabitants contribute to the climate crisis? What would "great and powerful" leaders do about that?

3. How does magical thinking cause people to ignore scientifc evidence, according to Shermer? (Are you afraid of your mobile phone?)

4. What can we hope to accomplish if we (i.e., if enough of us) move to cooler and more temperate regions? What's our "duty"? Who does Gaia help? What will life be like for the average upstate New Yorker in 2030?

5. What's Lovelock's reply to critics who say he's a sentimentalizing anthropomorphizer?
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6. What alternative energy form has a chance of helping offset climate change? Why isn't wind a sensible choice? Why wouldn't all be well if we just improved our carbon footprint? What energy form "could see us through the troubled times ahead"? Why isn't Lovelock concerned about radiation?

7. Why are scientists "reticent"? What's the fundamental division within environmentalism? What's the comparison between nuclear energy and Silent Spring?

8. Why isn't [wasn't?] Lovelock more concerned about "serious accidents in Japanese nuclear power stations"?

9. What did Lovelock take away from his meeting with Stewart Brand's friend in the coal industry?

10. What's the Rousseau-inspired energy myth? What's wrong with the concept of renewable energy? What's the only entirely nonpolluting source?

11. Who was C.P. Snow? What's Lovelock's food dream? How can walking help?
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[Geoengineering: what is it? What's Gaian engineering? What's better about naturally evolved ecosystems? What must we ask before we start geoengineering? What's our alternative?]