MacG wrote:Lovelock? The one with "Gaia"? He comes trough as some kind of New Age romantic. I dont bother to much with him.
Newsseeker wrote:MacG wrote:Lovelock? The one with "Gaia"? He comes trough as some kind of New Age romantic. I dont bother to much with him.
He's far from New Age and a romantic but I understand you're sentiment. He is a GW doomer and I posted it just to see what the response was since GW is a popular topic here.
Grifter wrote:Newsseeker wrote:MacG wrote:Lovelock? The one with "Gaia"? He comes trough as some kind of New Age romantic. I dont bother to much with him.
He's far from New Age and a romantic but I understand you're sentiment. He is a GW doomer and I posted it just to see what the response was since GW is a popular topic here.
It can be argued that "Gaia" was hijacked by the new age, environmental, mother earth types. That put me off, but really it was simply putting the notion of the earth biosphere as a self correcting system into a word, to coin a phrase if you like.
A bit like Hawkings hand of god type stuff.
MacG wrote:
It can be argued that "Gaia" was hijacked by the new age, environmental, mother earth types. That put me off, but really it was simply putting the notion of the earth biosphere as a self correcting system into a word, to coin a phrase if you like.
A bit like Hawkings hand of god type stuff.
Uhu? So how could we mere humans ever come to believe that we could affect that Big Mother Gaia with our behavior then? We should be just fleas in the fur according to the original thinking?
Cognitive dissonance. Big time.
MacG wrote:Uhu? So how could we mere humans ever come to believe that we could affect that Big Mother Gaia with our behavior then? We should be just fleas in the fur according to the original thinking?
Cognitive dissonance. Big time.
MacG wrote: We should be just fleas in the fur according to the original thinking?
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"Lovelock has no logic.
We will be without ability to go to the arctic by 2020, no fuel, no culture and no piston driven motors.
Since he didn't see what was coming, he isn't that smart."
Cid_Yama wrote:We were just an extremely successful species, and our enormous numbers has altered the climate on a paleogeologic scale.
dohboi wrote:STOP, DROP, and ROLL.
Cid_Yama wrote:We were just an extremely successful species, and our enormous numbers has altered the climate on a paleogeologic scale.
DefiledEngine wrote:Quite, since humans have spread all over the world and gained such diversity, the chance to survive the next environmental catastrophe has vastly increased! That is why this kind of strategy actually seems very good in an environment like Earth's, because if we hadn't, a simply catastrophe like an asteroid or a supervolcano could truly have exterminated the human species.
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