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Eight Ways Pagans Celebrate Earth Day

Edit Huffington Post 07 Apr 2016
Paganism is a nature religion or earth-centered spirituality ... Not surprisingly then, Earth Day (April 22) is a holy day for many Pagans. Here are some ways that Pagans celebrate Earth Day. 1 ... 2 ... Some take the Gaia Theory as confirmation of this worldview ... That same year, Tim Zell, one of the fathers of contemporary Paganism had a vision of the Earth as a living planet, several years before James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis was popularized ... ....

Could This Be Why We Haven't Found Aliens Yet?

Edit IFL Science 23 Jan 2016
A new explanation has been presented as to why we have found no evidence of life elsewhere in the universe. According to a paper published in Astrobiology, life may appear often, but is usually wiped out through lack of temperature control capacity ... In this context three explanations are popular ... An alternative explanation is that it is life itself that stabilized Earth's climate, as proposed in the controversial Gaia hypothesis ... ....

Fukushima Mon Amour

Edit CounterPunch 22 Jan 2016
Is the crisis in Fukushima over or just beginning? You might be forgiven for scratching your head at that one ... In brief, the revised story of the Fukushima meltdown goes something like this ... Full-speed ahead! ... Edward Teller’s deranged ideas of yesteryear have now been dusted off and remarketed by the Nuclear Greens, including James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis, with no credit given to their heinous progenitor ... ....

Because Taiwan Is a Part of Gaia

Edit Huffington Post 10 Dec 2015
During the 1970s, British scholar James Lovelock put forward the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that the Earth is a self-regulating, complex system, and that human beings constitute one organ of this entity ... The measures that Taiwan, as a part of Gaia, has thus far enacted underscore its commitment to meeting its obligations as a responsible global ......

Apocalypse now, the Hollywood trope on climate change

Edit The Hindu 06 Dec 2015
With the rains wreaking havoc in Chennai and the climate change conference on in Paris, the weather and environmental catastrophes are on every mind and tongue. Climate change in popular culture has that satisfying undercurrent of just deserts and in the movies, it is a chance for the special effects people to run amok ... While the movie does not expressly say what caused us to become infertile, the Gaia hypothesis seems to be at work ... ....

'Conversing with the Planets': Creation and science, the process of discovery

Edit The Examiner 27 Sep 2015
Unfortunately he uses the apocryphal tale of Isaac Newton’s intuiting the nature of gravity from watching an apple falling from a tree to illustrate the point ... With this, I have no quibble ... (p .219). Aveni also brings up the Gaia hypothesis, that is, the idea that earth functions like a living being. He quotes James Lovelock, who formulated the hypothesis, as saying that Gaia’s “unconscious goal is a planet fit for life.” ... It’s powerful ... ....

Why do rainforests matter? You asked Google – and here’s the answer

Edit The Guardian 08 Jul 2015
Related. Trees of the Amazon rainforest - in pictures. Rainforests cover 6% of Earth’s land surface, yet they are home to 50% or more of all land-based species, perhaps half of which remain to be discovered and named by scientists ... The capacity for rainforests to moderate the climate embody the Gaia hypothesis – the concept that the Earth self-regulates to create the conditions to support life ... Rainforests fulfil other needs ... ....

Sixth Great Mass Extinction Event Begins

Edit Information Clearing House 30 Jun 2015
2015 on Pace to Become Hottest Year on Record. By Dahr Jamail ... We started on Mount Adams, a 12,280-foot peak in the southern part of the state ... and quite likely, forever ... Earth ... Air ... This could be why James Lovelock, the celebrated scientist and environmentalist who created the Gaia hypothesis, recently stated, "Saving the planet is a foolish, romantic extravagance." ... I think actually that Gaia might heave a sigh of relief."....
photo: AP / Manish Swarup
Nepalese students and volunteers clear the rubble at Kathmandu Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, following a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the region.

Marching Into Oblivion While Gaia Looks After Herself

Edit WorldNews.com 29 Apr 2015
Only those who are environmentally challenged or etiologically impaired can ignore (to their own peril) how humanity has impacted Gaia ... One cornerstone starting to emerge again is Gaia ... "On the contrary," writes Lovelock, "Gaia will look after herself ... For a post-modern and consumerist and technological age, one that appears to mistreat the environment and the future of life itself, the Gaia hypothesis has profound implications....

Can The Earth Be Conscious?

Edit National Public Radio 14 Apr 2015
About 40 years ago, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis developed their famous Gaia Hypothesis that claimed the biosphere had hijacked the planet for its own ends ... In the central premise of the Gaia Hypothesis, the biosphere was a kind of thermostat keeping planetary conditions in an optimal range for the maintence of ... chardin new age noosphere biosphere Gaia Hypothesis earth Internet....

'Democrat' communists want to persecute 'deniers'

Edit WorldNetDaily 22 Mar 2015
One of these poisonous groups, which claims close links to Mr ... After 18 years with no global warming at all, one of the most pressing scientific questions now facing climatologists is where all the hot air generated by Al Gore has gone. It has left no mark on the global temperature record ... Instead, he checks and checks again ... No buts ... Mr ... 2005 ... 2006 ... 2006. Dr ... Dr ... James Lovelock, inventor of the “Gaia hypothesis,” told the Guardian....

The digital black hole: will it delete your memories?

Edit The Guardian 16 Feb 2015
Google’s vice-president Vint Cerf has warned that all digitally stored information could be wiped out by tech upgrades, putting the sum total of human knowledge under threat ... Instagram ... Lewis Dartnell ... James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis on the natural regulation of the Earth’s climate, argued in 1998 for a Book for All Seasons – a textbook of the most crucial human knowledge, structured in a logical progression ... ....

MAXATOMSTROM Offers 100% Nuclear Power Plan Beginning 01 December 2014 in Germany

Edit Canada Newswire 01 Dec 2014
AUGSBURG, Germany, Dec ... MAXATOMSTROM's move to boost nuclear energy is also supported by Stephen Tindale - former head of Greenpeace UK, Australian climatologist Barry Brook, James Lovelock - originator of the Gaia Hypothesis, Baron Smith of Finsbury - former chairman of the UK Environment Agency, Robert Stone - an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker and Stewart Brand - creator of the Whole Earth Catalog ... Press Contact ... ....
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