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 While
the Gaia Hypothesis was readily accepted by many in the environmentalist
community, it has not been fully accepted within the scientific community.
Among its more famous critics are Richard Dawkins and Ford Doolittle,
and a detailed description of disputes surrounding it can be found
here. Briefly, critics point out that since natural selection operates
on individuals, it is not obvious how planetary-scale homeostasis
can evolve.
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Lovelock
countered these challenges with models such as Daisyworld, which
illustrate how individual-level effects can translate to planetary
homeostasis. However, as Earth Systems Science is still in its infancy,
it is not yet clear how the lessons from Daisyworld apply to the
full complexity of the Earth's biosphere and climate.
Lovelock has become concerned about the threat of global warming
from the greenhouse effect. In 2004 he caused a media sensation
when he broke with many fellow environmentalists by pronouncing
that "Only nuclear power can now halt global warming".
In his view, nuclear energy is the only realistic alternative to
fossil fuels that has the capacity to both fulfil the large scale
energy needs of mankind while also reducing greenhouse emissions.
He stated, "I am a Green, and I entreat my friends in the movement
to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy".
Although
Lovelock's interventions in the public debate on nuclear power are
recent, his views on it are longstanding. In his 1988 book The Ages
Of Gaia he states: "I have never regarded nuclear radiation
or nuclear power as anything other than a normal and inevitable
part of the environment. Our prokaryotic forebears evolved on a
planet-sized lump of fallout from a star-sized nuclear explosion,
a supernova that synthesised the elements that go to make our planet
and ourselves."All Rights Reserved Natural Earth Media (c) 2006-
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