The Quest for Gaia: a Book of Changes

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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part One : THE ANATOMY OF AN ANGRY GODDESS; 1 Sun is Life; 2 Disorder is Death; 3 The Face of Gaia; 4 The Mind of Gaia; 5 Ecology and the Intelligent Goddess; Part Two : CHANGE AND REFUTATION; 6 To Break a Habit; 7 Change and Transformation; 8 Eating the Sun; 9 Half a Loaf; 10 Meat and Disorder; 11 Packets of Disorder; 12 A Cup of Dreams; 13 Frozen Seasons; 14 Heating Machines for Food; 15 Cool Cooking and Local Eating; 16 Water; 17 Washing Machines for People; 18 Washing Machines for Clothes; 19 Water Watching.;Kit Pedler, the scientist who co-created the 'Doomwatch' television series to warn us of the dangers of technology, presents his vision of a totally different way of being in the world. Mankind, Pedler believes, stands at a critical point in history and has to reassess its relationship and the web of interactions that make up the total life-form of the planet. Pedler calls this life-form Gaia, after the Greek earth mother goddess, a being whose sole concern is the survival of the planet itself. Mankind is provoking the wrath of the life-form by its high technology, accelerating entropy and.