Its future is in our hands NASA
Earth is a complex machine that works to support life – and humans have seized the controls, for better or worse. That was the message of a conference held last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of James Lovelock, who famously came up with the Gaia hypothesis.
Lovelock’s idea is that life on Earth acts to preserve its own existence, by stabilising conditions on the planet. Popularised in the 1970s, it inspired a generation of scientists who study Earth’s many systems, from the climate to forests, and how they interact as a whole.…
