But let us return to James Lovelock for a moment; early on in The Vanishing Face of Gaia he does recognize his pessimism and the fact that the the grim message in his last book,
The sciences and the humanities now tell me a consilient (unified) story about the systematic development of matter, life, and consciousness. Inherent in this story is a rich and satisfying account of who we are, where we've come from, and how we might become fulfill. If anything qualifies as the best that has been thought and writtenabout human reality this story surely does. It is the birthright of every person on the planet-it is everybody’s story.Nike Sportswear