Books: can James Lovelock save the world?

书评：詹姆斯·拉夫洛克能否拯救世界？

Lovelock brought an engineer's sensibilities to the analysis of Mother Earth.

洛夫·洛克将工程师的敏感带入对地球母亲的分析。

It all began more than three decades ago when Lovelock devised the electron-capture detector.

这一切是从超过30年前Lovelock设计了一个电子捕捉探测仪开始的。

Aware of Lovelock 's skills, NASA asked him in 1961 to help devise ways of detecting life on Mars.

理解到Lovelock的技术，1961年NASA(美国航天)邀请他去帮助设计探测火星生命的方式。

Lovelock: There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter.

洛夫·洛克说：地球表面上任何地方都没有生命或非生命的明确区分。

And they are out of whack, Lovelock was to find out, because of the curious accumulative effects of coevolution.

正因为它们不正常，洛夫·洛克才出于好奇去找出它们共同进化中累积的结果。

But Lovelock believes that other Nature ACTS in accord with Darwinian evolution, with no conscious plan or intelligence.

但是，Lovelock坚信自然母亲的“行事”与达尔文的进化论一致，没有有意识的计划或者智慧。

Lovelock observed, "in no way do organisms simply 'adapt' to a dead world determined by physics and chemistry alone."

生物体绝非简单适应一个只有物理和化学反应主导的死世界。

And from his small laboratory, Lovelock has proposed a theory that is changing the way scientists think about life on our planet.

就是在这个小实验室中，Lovelock提出了一项改变科学家关于我们这个星球上生命的思维方式。

Biochemist James Lovelock writes of this embrace, "the evolution of a species is inseparable from the evolution of its environment."

生物化学家詹姆斯·洛夫·洛克就这种相拥状况写道：“物种的进化与其所处环境的演变密不可分。”

Lovelock estimates that our current diet means that Earth will struggle to feed 10 billion; a vegan-based diet could allow the planet to feed 100 billion.

Lovelock估计我们目前的饮食意味着地球颤颤巍巍才能养活100亿人口；而素食饮食可以让地球养活1000亿人口。

Lovelock and a collaborator, science journalist Michael Allaby, have proposed a bold futuristic scheme: unleasing the power of Gaia to bring life to Mars.

Lovelock和一名合作人员，《科学杂志》的Michael Allaby，提出了一项堪称未来主义的计划：释放盖亚的力量给火星带去生命。

Developed c. 1972 largely by British chemist James E. Lovelock and U. s. biologist Lynn Margulis, the Gaia hypothesis is named for the Greek Earth goddess.

约在1972年由英国化学家洛夫·洛克与美国生物学家马古利斯阐述，盖亚假说以希腊大地女神命名。

Lovelock called this view Gaia. Together with microbiologist Lynn Margulis, the two published the view in 1972 so that it could be critiqued on scientific terms.

洛夫·洛克把这个观点称为盖亚[7]，并于1972年与微生物学家林恩·马基·莉斯[8]一起公布了这个观点，以接受科学评判。

Some environmentalists retain their antipathy to it, but green gurus such as James Lovelock, Stewart Brand and Patrick Moore have changed their minds and embraced it.

虽然一些环境学家仍然对其非常反感，但是绿色的环保主义者像詹姆斯·拉弗·洛克、斯坦·沃特·布朗德和帕特里克·摩尔已经改变了他们的观念并开始拥护核电。

Lovelock, 90, believes the world's best hope is to invest in adaptation measures, such as building sea defences around the cities that are most vulnerable to sea-level rises.

90岁高龄的拉夫洛克认为，整个世界最大的希望在于加大适应性措施投入，如在易受海平面上升影响的城市建设海堤等。

Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding, Lovelock’s neighbor, suggested calling the theory Gaya (GUY-ah) after the ancient Greek Earth goddess, lovelock embraced the name.

Lovelock的邻居，诺贝尔奖得主William Golding提议用古希腊大地女神盖亚（Gaia）的名字来命名这个理论，Lovelock喜欢这个称呼。