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Beware: Gaia may destroy humans before we destroy the Earth

Beware: Gaia may destroy humans before we destroy the Earth Covid-19 may well have been one attempt by the Earth to protect itself. Gaia will try harder next time with something even nastier ‘I am not hopeful of a positive outcome at Cop26, knowing who is participating. I was not invited to Glasgow, though that […]

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Gaia’s Problem Children: Humans

Gaia’s Problem Children: Humans Also discussed during two podcasts: one here and another here. Ecological engineering, and a keystone role, in any local ecosystem, is the human cultural adaptive niche. Maybe we should call this a “hyper-keystone” niche, since humans have managed their ecosystems by making use of a host of other keystone species like beavers, wolves, bison, and giraffe in […]

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Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time?

Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time? The Earth is not dying. Gaia is not changing. Gi is responding. So often we hear the phrase ‘save the world’ or the ‘save our planet.’ We may even use it. But sometime back in my career someone wise corrected that, explaining that […]

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Gaia, the Return of the Earth Goddess

Gaia, the Return of the Earth Goddess Temple worship in Ur, from Sumerian times. Note in the lower panel people are bringing all sort of goods to the temple represented as the abstract structure on the right. House founded by An, praised by Enlil, given an oracle by mother Nintud! A house, at its upper […]

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Gaia Exists! Here is the Proof

Gaia Exists! Here is the Proof Gaia is neither benevolent nor merciful. She is harsh and ruthless.  Environmentalists are sometimes defined as “Gaia worshippers,” a term supposed to be an insult. That’s a little strange because most people on this planet openly worship non-existing entities and that doesn’t normally make them targets for insults. Maybe […]

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We are Gaians! — United with a living planet in crisis

We are Gaians! — United with a living planet in crisis Versión original en Castellano: ¡Somos de Gaia!, D.C. Wahl, 2005 Many of us are familiar with the name Gaia. But how well do most people understand the concept this word tries to express? Mythologically Gaia refers to the ancient Greek goddess. More than a simple member of the […]

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Climate Armageddon Revisited

Climate Armageddon Revisited It was only five years ago that Scientific American published this article: Climate Armageddon: How the World’s Weather Could Quickly Run Amok, d/d May 25, 2012. The subheading to that article read: “Climate scientists think a perfect storm of climate ‘flip’ could cause massive upheavals in a matter of years.” Well now…. […]

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