Gas Guzzling Gaia, or
A Prehistory of Climate Change Denialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2228048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leah Aronowsky (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 306-327 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-1896 • E-ISSN: 1539-7858 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/712129 |
| OpenAlex | W3113539203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article tells the story of the oil and gas origins of the Gaia hypothesis, the theory that the Earth is a homeostatic system. It shows how Gaia's key assumption—that the climate is a fundamentally stable system, able to withstand perturbations—emerged as a result of a collaboration between the theory's progenitor, James Lovelock, and Royal Dutch Shell in response to Shell's concerns about the effects of its products on the climate. The article explains how Lovelock elaborated the Gaia hypothesis and gave it evidential depth through a series of Royal Dutch Shell-funded research projects meant to identify organisms whose biological activities might double as climate-regulating mechanisms. The article goes on to show how this research subsequently laid the foundation for a distinct genre of climate change denialism, in which corporations sowed doubt not by denying the phenomenon of global warming but by naturalizing it
Archaeology · Biology · Climate change · Earth system science · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence · Global warming · Phenomenon · Prehistory · Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution · Ecology · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · History · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
Symbioautothanatosis
Pre-service science teachers’ visions on education for sustainable development – tensions, underlying beliefs, and experiences
Songs of the New World and the Breath of the Planet at the Orbis Spike, 1610
Holism
What Is Denialism? An Examination and Classification of Definitional Approaches and Relevant Actors
Carbon Vitalism
Subterranean Archives
Gaia Is a Tough Bitch
Reclaiming planetary consciousness
Socialism is not just Built for a Hundred Years’
European Histories of the Economic and Environmental
Early warnings and emerging accountability
Produktivistische Ökologie
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
Educação climática no museu
Natura o tecnica? Sars-Cov-2, nuovi materialismi e critica dell'Antropocene
The “Eco-Phony” World’s Fair
Playing Gaia
From Rorty to Gaia
"Too Much" Sand, Not Water
Anthropocene and the dawn of a planetary civilization
The Discovery of Global Warming
Protecting the Ozone Layer
Gaia as seen through the atmosphere
Extending the Domain of Freedom, or Why Gaia Is So Hard to Understand
Organized Climate Change Denial
Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)
The Signature of Life
The Ontology of the Enemy
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |