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Gaia hypothesis

an hypothesis developed by the British scientist, James Lovelock, to suggest that the earth is one living system, such that the distinction between organic and inorganic matter is false. Gaia was an ancient Greek goddess of the earth and fertility Contrary to established scientific notions, Lovelock argues that a conducive physical environment did not first exist within which living organisms could develop, but rather the living organisms create the necessary physical environment for their survival. This leads to the concept of the planet earth as a CYBERNETIC system. In the late 1980s, the Gaia movement emerged as one of the environmental groups increasingly influential in national and international politics.
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She builds her ecological theology on the scientific Gaia theory; yet, (320) like any other theory, Gaia theory is a hypothesis.
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Lotka was not only one of Vernadskij's contemporary born in the current Ukraine where Vernadskij set up his laboratory in Kiev, but also the foremost source for the Gaia theory, as Lovelock acknowledged.
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World environmental history
Newly published work done at the University of Maryland by first author Harry Oduro, together with UMD geochemist James Farquhar and marine biologist Kathryn Van Alstyne of Western Washington University, provides a tool for tracing and measuring the movement of sulphur through ocean organisms, the atmosphere and the land in ways that may help prove or disprove the controversial Gaia theory.
Earth may really be a sort of giant living organism
Newly published work done at the University of Maryland by first author Harry Oduro, together with UMD geochemist James Farquhar and marine biologist Kathryn Van Alstyne of Western Washington University, provides a tool for tracing and measuring the movement of sulfur through ocean organisms, the atmosphere and the land in ways that may help prove or disprove the controversial Gaia theory. Their study appears in this week's Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Sulfur Finding May Hold Key to Gaia Theory of Earth as Living Organism
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Davies, Nicola. Gaia Warriors
These ideas were doubtlessly a forerunner to Lovelock's Gaia theory.
Edward Goldsmith: pioneering ecologist, activist, lover of life: Peter Bunyard pays tribute to the extraordinary life and work of pioneering eco-philosopher, Edward Goldsmith, founding editor of the ecologist in the UK in 1970 and co-founder of Pacific Ecologist in 2002
James Lovelock (best known for his Gaia theory) and Chris Rapley (director of the British Science Museum) have been talking with billionaire Richard Branson about funding an experiment to re-jigger marine ecosystems to counter climate change.
Pipe dream
He said he had been influenced by James Lovelock, the inventor of Gaia Theory, which suggests that the world may already have crossed a "tipping point".
BRITAIN: Branson offers pounds 13m prize to find way of taking carbon out of atmosphere

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