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ISIS Special Miniseries 'Life of Gaia'

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The Institute of Science in Society

Science Society Sustainability

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ISIS Director m.w.ho

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ISIS Special Miniseries

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Life of Gaia

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This miniseries is dedicated to our planet earth, so we may better appreciate

how she lives and sustains all creatures large and small, that we may learn to

dance to the complex rhythms of her life music without stopping her in her

tracks.

 

 

Space scientist and inventor Jim Lovelock first proposed in the 1970s that the

entire earth is a self-organizing, self-regulating entity, rather like an

organism. He named the earth Gaia, after the Greek earth goddess.

 

 

The idea that Gaia is alive and has a life of her own immediately caught fire.

It inspired many earth scientists to look for the dynamic processes that

organize and regulate the currents of the earth, to make a congenial home for

all her inhabitants. These scientists are richly rewarded.

 

 

Records from ice and deep sea cores show detailed globally correlated changes

going back at least 800 000 years, leaving us in no doubt that the earth behaves

from moment to moment as one coherent whole, just like an organism.

Not only can we can read Gaia’s life-history from her deep memory stores, we can

also tune in to her life-force pulsing as she is living today.

 

 

Gaia spinning in her perpetual dance around the sun, her mighty breath tumbling

from hot belly to the poles, swirling across the continents, bringing welcome

rain to forests, grasslands and crops, or torrential downpours, floods and

hurricanes. Vast slow vortices of water connect her oceans from the furthest

northern reaches to the southernmost haunts, from the shimmering sea surfaces to

the dark deep beds, distributing warmth and nutrients, sustaining life with

life.

 

 

Gaia’s breath is our breath, her water our water. Let Gaia live that we may

live.

 

 

 

Back to the Future for Gaia

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Abrupt Climate Change Happening

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Global Warming & then the Big Freeze

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Why Gaia Needs Rainforests

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Why the US Needs the Amazon

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Soya Destroying Amazon

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More CO2 Could Mean Less Biodiversity & Worse

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