Our Living Planet

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From The New York Times:

The Earth Is Just as Alive as You Are

Scientists once ridiculed the idea of a living planet. Not anymore. It’s time to revisit the Gaia Hypothesis.

“If Earth breathes, sweats and quakes — if it births zillions of organisms that ceaselessly devour, transfigure and replenish its air, water and rock — and if those creatures and their physical environments evolve in tandem, then why shouldn’t we think of our planet as alive?”
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