The Revenge of Gaia Redux

The Gaia hypothesis, which posits that the systems of the earth are conscious, and interconnected, struck a strong chord within the mind of the Global Village Idiot. Was that the late 70's, or later, i don't remember. But i do remember that James Lovelock's name was forever struck in my brain. As was Gaia, which my native families have always called, since time immemorial, Mother Earth. (Perhaps Lovelock had done a bit of reading of native thought?)

Now he's saying that without a huge reversal, the majority of the earth's population will not make it to the next century. Global warming being the method of Gaia's revenge, not that Gaia made global warming, but that the human civilization fucked up a bit, and the system will take it's revenge according to natural law.

I think it goes something like this: If you fuck with my cycles, just like the vast majority of all fish in the North See are now feminine from too many leaking estrogen chemicals, then Mama Earth has no choice but to react.

Another version says the physics are simple; too much heat in, then too many changes to the existing (finely tuned) infrastructure. For a few billion years there was a natural balance of the heat in/heat out structure, of course with local variations; now we have a few new external factors altering the classic equation... leading to Lovelock's Revenge theory.

There's something strange which seems to be the same science but which Lovelock, despite his excellent scientific credentials and supranormal ability to see what Indians have known for centuries, seems to have overlooked. And that is simply defined by his answer: we must agressively develop nuclear power.

If i were a scientist of Lovelock's caliber, i would simply ask him to objectively examine the entire cycle of nuclear costs, including from the beginning of mining through the entire fuel and construction and waste and water cooling and storage and decommissioning cycle, and add to that the entire economic calculation of protecting the waste for how many tens of thousands of years from a civilization which has yet shown little ability to make a peaceful decade, and if he can then show that the costs and risks are worth it....

....well then i would give him much more credibility and still show him that windpower, as the first mature part of the solar equation which we must follow, is even more cost effective. I would also report to him that in my direct conversations with Mother Earth, she said she likes the name Gaia, and will always honor the earthling who coined her favority mundane name...

....but she wishes he would dig a bit deeper, because she feels better nurturing a planetary ecology based upon the same sources upon which life is built. While eye can't speak for her, it seems she was talking about solar energy, without which there is no life here. Winds are solar heat differential caused, i've learned from the climatological types, and windpower is only the most mature of all the solar technologies, my speciality. Methinks she was talking about that.

Hey... Heya heya Heh! When my momma speaks, her being a few billion years older als mich, i like to listen... and the guy who named her ought to listen as well. After all, it's Solstice Evening, and the entire Gaian World is revelling in the ancient holy ceremony. The most holy death and rebirth cycle without which there is no Gaia.