Books like The ages of Gaia by James Lovelock

Erwin Schrödinger’s 1944 book "What Is Life?" poses the question of how living organisms can be explained by physics and chemistry, introducing the concept of an aperiodic crystal that later inspired the discovery of DNA.

James Lovelock explains the Gaia hypothesis, presenting Earth as a self-regulating organism and assessing the current health of its feedback systems.

Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called "green" products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In Surviving Gaia's Revenge, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state"—and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse the process; the planet is simply too overpopulated to halt its own destruction by greenhouse gases. In order to survive, mankind must start preparing now for life on a radically changed planet. The meliorist approach outlined in the Kyoto Treaty must be abandoned in favor of nuclear energy and aggressive agricultural development on the small areas of earth that will remain arable. A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movement's elder statesmen, Surviving Gaia's Revenge offers an essential wake-up call for the human race.

James Lovelock’s biography traces his journey from a curious childhood to pioneering environmental science, including the invention of the Electron Capture Detector, the discovery of CFCs in the atmosphere, and his development of the Gaia hypothesis.