To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1387086 ) 1/13/2023 1:34:53 PM From: Wharf Rat Respond to "I just don't agree with the notion that the planet will "heal itself" by using nature as an immune system against the "virus" of humanity. That's straight out of the movie Avatar"Gaia hypothesis - Wikipedia Gaia hypothesis ( /'ga?.?/ ), also known as the Gaia theory , Gaia paradigm , or the Gaia principle , proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating , complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.James Lovelock [1] and co-developed by the microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. [2] Lovelock named the idea after Gaia , the primordial goddess who personified the Earth in Greek mythology . The suggestion that the theory should be called "the Gaia hypothesis" came from Lovelock's neighbour, William Golding . In 2006, the Geological Society of London awarded Lovelock the Wollaston Medal in part for his work on the Gaia hypothesis. [3] biosphere and the evolution of organisms affect the stability of global temperature , salinity of seawater , atmospheric oxygen levels, the maintenance of a hydrosphere of liquid water and other environmental variables that affect the habitability of Earth .teleological and against the principles of natural selection , but later refinements aligned the Gaia hypothesis with ideas from fields such as Earth system science , biogeochemistry and systems ecology . [4] [5] [6] Even so, the Gaia hypothesis continues to attract criticism, and today many scientists consider it to be only weakly supported by, or at odds with, the available evidence. [7] [8] [9] "In any case, like I (and others) have said before, the planet's ecosystem is resilient."
