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Planetary Health in the Age of Climate Change

Name: Planetary Health in the Age of Climate Change
Creator: Jennifer Thomson
Keywords: 13. Climate action, 11. Sustainability, 12. Responsible consumption, 3. Good health

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book 13 May 2019 English Publisher:University of North Carolina Press (publisher)

Authors: Jennifer Thomson;

doi: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651996.003.0005

Planetary Health in the Age of Climate Change

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This chapter details physicist James Lovelock's lifelong work on the Gaia hypothesis. Gaia postulated that the Earth was a single living entity whose health was threatened by human-induced changes in atmospheric composition and planetary biodiversity. Arguing that humans had overstepped their ecological niche, Lovelock developed a planetary medicine by which humans would treat the planet as a doctor would a sick patient. Gaia, as well as Lovelock's diagnosis of the Earth as having a fever, found renewed life in the 1990s, as activist Bill McKibben called for drastic checks on the greenhouse-gas emissions threatening the health of the planet.

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