Humanity's retreat to Antarctica

James Lovelock has been one of the most influential and controversial environmentalists of the modern era, and his lastest book, The Revenge of Gaia, is perhaps his most controversial. Lovelock foreshadows a bleak future of drastic temperature increases, due to global warming, with the prospect that...

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Main Author: Page, James Smith
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
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Published: Australian Democrats 2009
Subjects:
climate change
global warming
James Lovelock
eco-fundamentalism
pragmatic environmentalism
Greens
Antarc*
Antarctica
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spelling ftqueensland:oai:eprints.qut.edu.au:28301 2023-06-18T03:38:03+02:00 Humanity's retreat to Antarctica Page, James Smith 2009-10 application/pdf https://eprints.qut.edu.au/28301/ unknown Australian Democrats https://eprints.qut.edu.au/28301/1/c28301.pdf http://www.democrats.org.au Page, James Smith (2009) Humanity's retreat to Antarctica. Australian Democrats National Journal, 32(2), pp. 6-7. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/28301/ Faculty of Education free_to_read Copyright 2009 Australian Democrats This work is covered by copyright. Unless the document is being made available under a Creative Commons Licence, you must assume that re-use is limited to personal use and that permission from the copyright owner must be obtained for all other uses. If the document is available under a Creative Commons License (or other specified license) then refer to the Licence for details of permitted re-use. It is a condition of access that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. If you believe that this work infringes copyright please provide details by email to qut.copyright@qut.edu.au Australian Democrats National Journal climate change global warming James Lovelock eco-fundamentalism pragmatic environmentalism Greens Contribution to Journal 2009 ftqueensland 2023-06-05T22:32:55Z James Lovelock has been one of the most influential and controversial environmentalists of the modern era, and his lastest book, The Revenge of Gaia, is perhaps his most controversial. Lovelock foreshadows a bleak future of drastic temperature increases, due to global warming, with the prospect that only a remnant of humanity might survive in Antarctica. The work also entails an interesting commentary on environmental philosophy and politics. Lovelock (like Lord Taverne)is scathing about the shortcomings of eco-fundamentalism, notably evident with the Greens, and argues that instead what we need is a pragmatic environmentalism to deal with our global challenges. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Queensland University of Technology: QUT ePrints
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global warming
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eco-fundamentalism
pragmatic environmentalism
Greens
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global warming
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eco-fundamentalism
pragmatic environmentalism
Greens
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Humanity's retreat to Antarctica
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pragmatic environmentalism
Greens
description James Lovelock has been one of the most influential and controversial environmentalists of the modern era, and his lastest book, The Revenge of Gaia, is perhaps his most controversial. Lovelock foreshadows a bleak future of drastic temperature increases, due to global warming, with the prospect that only a remnant of humanity might survive in Antarctica. The work also entails an interesting commentary on environmental philosophy and politics. Lovelock (like Lord Taverne)is scathing about the shortcomings of eco-fundamentalism, notably evident with the Greens, and argues that instead what we need is a pragmatic environmentalism to deal with our global challenges.
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Page, James Smith (2009) Humanity's retreat to Antarctica. Australian Democrats National Journal, 32(2), pp. 6-7.
https://eprints.qut.edu.au/28301/
Faculty of Education
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Copyright 2009 Australian Democrats
This work is covered by copyright. Unless the document is being made available under a Creative Commons Licence, you must assume that re-use is limited to personal use and that permission from the copyright owner must be obtained for all other uses. If the document is available under a Creative Commons License (or other specified license) then refer to the Licence for details of permitted re-use. It is a condition of access that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. If you believe that this work infringes copyright please provide details by email to qut.copyright@qut.edu.au
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