A ROUGH RIDE TO THE FUTURE

James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles Dar win' (Independent) and 'the most profound scientific thinker of our time' (Literary Review) continues, in his 95th year, to be the g reat scientific visionary of our age. This book introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, whe n Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was unknowingly beginning what Lovelock calls 'accelerated evolution', a process whi ch is br...[Read more]