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Posted on 05/07/2009 11:36:22 AM PDT by presidio9
Swine flu? Global warming? Toxic oceans? Why does Mother Nature sometimes seem to be on the attack? According to the decades-old "Gaia hypothesis," it's because Earth is a self-regulating system that is responding to our own excesses. In a new book titled "The Vanishing Face of Gaia," British biologist James Lovelock says humanity is "Earth's infection."
"Individuals occasionally suffer a disease called polycythaemia, an overpopulation of red blood cells. By analogy, Gaia's illness could be called polyanthroponemia, where humans overpopulate until they do more harm than good," Lovelock writes. He says the cure won't come until the human tribe is trimmed back from its current 6.8 billion to, say, 1 billion people.
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"I hypothesize that life and its processes, together often referred to as 'Mother Nature,' was, is, and will be anything but a good mother to her many evolved and evolving species," Ward contends in his new book, "The Medea Hypothesis."
Gaia vs. Medea ... that sounds like the start of a philosophical catfight.
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The way Ward sees it, we're the solution, not the problem. "In the short term, we are responsible for 'Medean' effects, but it's going to be our long-term stewardship and engineering that makes things work," he said. "I view humans as the only Gaians on the planet. Everything else is Medean."
While Lovelock uses "Gaia" to refer to Earth's biosphere as a kindly mother goddess, Ward uses "Medea" as a reference to the mother in Greek myth who killed her own children. Ward says life, like Medea, eventually sows the seeds of its own near-destruction - over and over again. "Life boils up and bubbles up, and through its own waste products and activities makes the planet no longer inhabitable,"
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com ...
If Mr. Lovelock were sincere, he would commit suicide immediately.
But he doesn't want to commit suicide.
He wants OTHER PEOPLE to commit suicide.
For their own good, of course.
The ninety-year old Lovelock had some stark comments in his “NewScientist” interview.
“Most of the ‘green’ stuff is verging on a gigantic scam. Carbon trading..is just what finance and industry wanted. It’s not going to do a damn thing about climate change, but it’ll make a lot of money for a lot of people..”
I can come up with a fairy lengthy list of folks that could do with ‘trimming’.
“I hypothesize...”
I.e. “I imagined it and liked what I imagined, so I’m going to fancy it to be true, without a shred of evidence.”
Fine. Democrats first.
Oh wait, I thought he said, "Madea."
Crack meet Pot. These guys fit the definition of an “expert” that I recently heard - a person that knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. And of course the “defects” in the earth are explained in Genesis, but I doubt either of these children of “mother earth” have bothered with the explanation provided by the Creator. Anyway their musing are good for a laugh.
That's original, I wonder where he came up with that idea?
A groaning creation...
I think that about sums it up.
ie AL Gore.
Individuals also occasionally suffer a disease called self-loathing hysteria, an overamplification of pomposity mixed with idiocy.
It isn’t the happiest analogy, actually. The Earth’s population at the time of the Black Death was only about 400 million. Maybe 250 million at the time of the Plague of Justinian. Disease may be a lot of things but Mother Gaia throwing a snit probably isn’t one of them. IMHO.
It is part of the Curse.
An entire article on the medean effect, and they never define it.
Mass extinctions due to meteor stikes means Earth is set up to prevent over population? Stupidity. How does a supposedly intelligent person mistake chance for intent?
He is the earth doctor, and he's found a cure! All we need to do is "trim" 5.8 billion people, and Gaia will be happy once again!
In previous times guys like this were called witch doctors.
Incidently, if I'm willing to accept that "Mother Earth" controls everything that takes place on the planet, how does that translate into sunspots or ateroids tens of millions of miles from earth, which set out on orbits 5 billion years ago which would eventually cross paths with Gia, and send the asteroids crashing into us?
“British biologist James Lovelock says humanity is “Earth’s infection.”
I’m sure the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost appreciate that, Doc.
Lovelock is ninety? Using his own logic, he should have killed himself years ago.
And yet mankind in any appreciable density only inhabits “maybe” 10% of the earth’s surface, and SIGNIFICANTLY LESS if we consider the entire volume of the planet.
And we’re the problem?
If you think for a second about the paragraph above, you will soon realize how ridiculous Al Gore’s “global warming” scare really is.
God told me to take dominion over His creation and that is what I am doing. And the earth is far better for man’s dominion.
If he believes his own theory then why is he advocating interference in “earth’s affairs”? Why not just sit back and let Mother Nature Resist Humans? Why doesn’t he meddle so much. If Earth’s immune system is fighting us all off, then LET IT!
“We shouldn’t interfere with Earth’s Natural processes”
“We should interfere with Earth’s Natural Processes when it comes to artificially culling the human herd down to 1 billion people!”
WTF????!!!!
If he believes in Gaia so damned much then let her work her magic and stop bitching about it!!!!
What an idiot, in his own mind we are evolved from apes, which are part of Nature, by the transitive property WE ARE AN EXTENSION OF THE EARTH!!!! By screwing with our population to limit is we are doing just as much messing around with it as anyone who invents a new medicine to prevent a plague.
Some consistency would be nice.
Mankind does not occupy anywhere near 10% of the surface of the planet, 60% of which is covered by water. The entire human population of planet could fit in the state of Connecticut, our 48th largest state.
The standard New Age high sacrament, although many times it is given as a total of only 500 million, so Mr. Lovelock is actually being quite generous...
Google "Georgia Guidestones"
The Godless, New Age 10 commandments are carved into this monument on American soil.
Here they are for you who don't want to search:
MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000 IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE
GUIDE REPRODUCTION WISELY — IMPROVING FITNESS AND DIVERSITY
UNITE HUMANITY WITH A LIVING NEW LANGUAGE
RULE PASSION — FAITH — TRADITION AND ALL THINGS WITH TEMPERED REASON
PROTECT PEOPLE AND NATIONS WITH FAIR LAWS AND JUST COURTS
LET ALL NATIONS RULE INTERNALLY RESOLVING EXTERNAL DISPUTES IN A WORLD COURT
AVOID PETTY LAWS AND USELESS OFFICIALS
BALANCE PERSONAL RIGHTS WITH SOCIAL DUTIES.
PRIZE TRUTH — BEAUTY — LOVE — SEEKING HARMONY WITH THE INFINITE
BE NOT A CANCER ON THE EARTH — LEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE — LEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE
Looks like we're well on our way to Utopia.
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