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[Mary Beth Berkley <murbith@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 8:43 AM Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> "This week, Herbert Girardet examines the work and influence of James
> Lovelock
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> who died recently on his 103rd birthday. Lovelock’s ‘Gaia’ theory changed
> the way scientists see the world, from an object to a living being named
> after the Greek earth goddess.  Perhaps this suggests a romantic worldview
> – but Lovelock’s recommendations for getting us out of the climate crisis
> were very much radically inventive and based on high-end technological
> advancements.  One of his boldest prescriptions was that we should allow
> artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of super-advanced robots to take
> over, as they would do a much better job at keeping the earth’s temperature
> within its safe limit. That’s some food for thought! "
>
> James Lovelock will be for ever known for his Gaia theory - a huge
> contribution to how we as humans understand and relate to the biosphere.
> The news that James Lovelock has died has reverberated around the media.
> This is no surprise since the importance of his life’s work has been
> compared to that of Charles Darwin’s.
> He was an inventor of a number of important scientific instruments, well
> summarised in his Wikipedia entry. But his most widely acknowledged
> contribution, of course, was revealed in his book Gaia,
> A new look at life on earth, published in 1979: he boldly stated that life
> on earth is a ‘superorganism’ that creates the very conditions for its own
> well-being.
> The Gaian view is that cooperation between living organisms and their
> environment is the organising principle that created favourable conditions
> for life on earth to thrive. Whilst Darwinian competition is acknowledged
> in the Gaia hypothesis, it is not the dominant principle.
>
> The loss of Lovelock
> https://theecologist.org/2022/aug/02/loss-lovelock
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