"Gaia" is one of those powerful, illuminating and obvious concepts that take man too long to figure out: it is a genuine mental paradigm change. Perhaps the name change will be sufficient to get it over the hump of acceptance!
Thanks for the posting, Stephen. Lawry > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen > Straker > Sent: Fri, June 20, 2003 4:15 AM > To: FW > Subject: [Futurework] Gaia again > > > Just got this notice from The Guardian. Gaia sounds down to > earth, all right. > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > What a wonderful Gaia > > James Lovelock's theory of the planet as one giant system is > a good one, even if it is named after a goddess. Today it's > called 'Earth system science' and is all the rage in > academia, says Jon Turney. > http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/sciences/story/0,12243,9801 12,00.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Stephen Straker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vancouver, B.C. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
