#126 - Gaia: James Lovelock on Planetary Systems, the Challenge of Climate Change, and the Role of Human Beings in Ecological Stewardship

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“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct, she has little chance of evolving another.”

-James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, 2009

Original YouTube:

https://youtu.be/JtBuJbCwdyo

Recorded 2011, Published October 2016 by CSUMB.https://www.youtube.com/@digitalcommonscsumb2306