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Richard Branson The media mogul and entrepreneur is the CEO of Virgin Group and a past TIME 100 honoree James Lovelock developed an instrument that helped decipher the role of chlorofluorocarbons in the depletion of the ozone layer. His Gaia theory of how our planet works has real applicability in the battle for our survival in a rapidly changing climate...
...Giving Earth a Voice I am an environmental educator who works internationally, and I bought the "Heroes of the Environment" special issue with great interest [Oct. 29]. However, I was disappointed to see Virgin tycoon Richard Branson alongside real environmental heroes such as Gaia theorist James Lovelock and Green Belt Movement co-founder Wangari Maathai. Although the writer defended Branson's inclusion, I am not convinced. I acknowledge that he is giving a large sum of money to scientific research for developing clean fuels, and this will certainly help our fight. But his environmental efforts are akin to offsetting long...
...hippie days of the 1960s drew to a close, the British scientist James Lovelock began to formulate a fittingly hippie (yet still innovative) theory about the earth. He believed that the living and non-living parts of the earth form a single, self-regulating system. When some change occurs within the “system,” some other part of the system reacts to restore the original conditions. He called the theory the Gaia hypothesis, after Gaia, the Greek goddess of earth...
...Environment. Nuclear power's image makeover began when James Lovelock-the British scientist whose "Gaia" theory likens the Earth to a living organism-declared nuclear power "the only green solution" to the world's energy needs. The coal-fired power plants that generate 80% of Australia's electricity produce huge quantities of carbon dioxide, which bears much of the blame for global warming. Nuclear plants produce almost no CO2. According to the csiro, replacing three of Australia's 24 coal plants with nuclear ones would cut carbon emissions from power generation by almost...
...will finally urge the U.S. Congress to ratify the treaty. Pieter Walraven Aix-en-Provence, France Windmills and solar power are valuable sources of clean energy but clearly limited in their potential to meet soaring needs. In warning of catastrophic climate change, Time referred to the environmentalist James Lovelock and his notion of Earth as a living superorganism that he calls Gaia. But the story ignored his endorsement of nuclear power, about which he says, "There is at present no other safe, practical and economic substitute for the dangerous practice of burning carbon fuels." Christina Ritch London time's report...