BC- Getting The “Gist’ of “it”?…
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‘James Lovelock, environmentalist, futurologist and creator of the Gaia hypothesis and its view of Earth as a huge organism, proposes that we help the planet “cure itself” by artificially ramping up ocean mixing, which would stimulate the growth of carbon-munching algae, thereby sinking more carbon dioxide into the ocean.
The Gaia hypothesis looks at Earth as a whole instead of at each of its systems separately—viewing it as something of a superorganism.
“I regard the Earth as a responsive, self-regulating system,” Lovelock said, one which should be able to cure itself from any climactic calamities, as it has done in the past.’
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http://www.livescience.com/environment/070926_gw_cure.html
