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,
Catastrophic climate destabilization. Sounds scary, right? Well, quite frankly, most of the projected impacts of our changing climate are, in fact, very scary. But is fear useful to us in this situation?
There can be no spiritual wisdom or spiritual truth that is not both in alignment and congruent with the progressive evolution of life in the physical universe. For it not to be so, it would have to be against life and to be against life would be against that Ultimate Reality, which originated life.
he does recognize his pessimism and the fact that the the grim message in his last book,