Financial Times: The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning By James Lovelock Allen Lane £20, 178 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 He Knew He Was Right: The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock and Gaia By John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin Allen Lane £20, 240 pages We are in the grip of a crisis we have barely begun to grasp. The earth is overheating under the influence of our continued efforts to burn up fossil fuels and cut down forests. It may already be too late …