Lovelock in 2005. Photograph Source: Bruno Comby at English Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 1.0

This biography by Jonathan Watts, The Many Lives of James Lovelock, could just as well be titled “A Life of the Many James Lovelocks”. Everyone liked one or another James Lovelock. He was widely—too widely—liked. Watts quotes former Guardian journalist Tim Radford: “I’m not surprised people who might consider themselves in political enmity also liked him so much” (256). He hung out with, or was admired and even loved by all kinds of people including his colleague at NASA, philosopher, systems analyst, undercover inspector, and lover Dian........

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