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Quote by: Nono On the contrary, whether it's 'true' or not it might be extremely beneficial to us to take for granted that it is. Gaia is the brainchild of James Lovelock, right? What he seems to be saying, time and again, is that we'd better damn well start behaving as if it were. |
Nah, its still useless. Even if we accepted the premise that Gaia could get pissed with us, we'd then still be left with deciding whether or not it was pissed now or happy with us. If you believe in the evolutionary history that eviromental scientists tell us to believe, then you have to admit there were some positive climate shifts in the past. All that existed at those times were dumb animals--what could they have possibly done to attract the judgement of Gaia? And of course, how would we even know if a warmer climate was going to be good or bad?
From some of the maps I've seen (admittedly years ago so opinions may have shifted) that speculated about the geography of Ice Age Earth, the ice melted and we have more usable land after the warming period than we had before it.
edit* I should have double checked that, it must have been wishful thinking.