{"id":1119,"date":"2009-01-07T18:42:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T01:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2009-01-07T18:42:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T01:42:04","slug":"notes-gaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/01\/07\/notes-gaia\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes: Gaia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musing this morning on the article I found through one of John Geraci<\/a>‘s tweets, Green Algae Bloom Process Could Stop Global Warming<\/a> by Andrew Williams in Clean Technica<\/a>, I wondered whether the earth is growing us up. You know, like parents grow up kids?<\/p>\n

It seems our projects and responsibilities get bigger, same as when kids grow up and have to take on more responsibilities. I can recall when the prospect of cleaning up a major river – say, the Rhine or the Thames – was considered nearly impossible. But it’s done now.<\/p>\n

What if Margulis and Sagan and Lovelock et al. are right, and earth is a living organism – wouldn’t it be growing us up? From “clean up the river”\/”clean up your room” to “clean up the climate”\/”clean up your house”?<\/p>\n

Links:<\/p>\n

Gaia Hypothesis<\/a><\/p>\n

Dazzle Gradually<\/a> (Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan)<\/p>\n

Deep Hot Biosphere<\/a> (Thomas Gold, Freeman Dyson foreword – not Gaia, but consider the proposition of an earth suffused by living microbes… What are they there for? Gold called our present model “surface chauvinism”: full marks for a pithy characterization!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ok, so maybe I’m crazy. But it beats being beaten down.<\/p>\n

File under: whimsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Musing this morning on the article I found through one of John Geraci‘s tweets, Green Algae Bloom Process Could Stop Global Warming by Andrew Williams in Clean Technica, I wondered whether the earth is growing us up. You know, like parents grow up kids? It seems our projects and responsibilities get bigger, same as when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[4102,4103],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-gaia","tag-whimsy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}