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A famous British scientist James Lovelock formulated the Gaia hypothesis. He worked with NASA on the Viking mission to find life on Mars during the 1970's and stunned the scientific community with his ideas on the future of mankind. Gaia proposes that the Earth will not tolerate an organism that threatens it continued well being and will move to eradicate it.
This means that the Earth will become too hot for us to survive and, having wiped us out, will subsequently return to a cooler state once Humans have gone.
He does not say this is inevitable but if we do nothing to reduce our impact on the world's ecosystem the Earth will switch to a much harsher environment.
Now in his 80's Lovelock is still both revered and dismissed in equal measure. Global warming is a fact. Arctic ice is nearly gone and most glaciers are in retreat. Extinctions of species is rampant and we are now in the Anthropocene. This is the age of man and our effect on the Earth is not sustainable.
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Does the earth has the ability to heal itself?
The Earth can look after itself! It can because of the 10, 000 years before humans inhabited It nothing went wrong. This is very simple and believable to prove that the Earth can look after itself
Why can't the earth look after itself?
because human behaviour is destroying the environment
What does the atmosphere look like on earth and what does it look like in space?
While you can see the clouds that float in the air, you do not see the atmosphere itself, whether you are on the earth or in space. You look through the atmosphere to see sea and land.
Why do constellations look like they are moving?
Because the earth is constantly rotating so the sky itself moves
Why do sunspots look small but are big?
Sunspots only look small in relationship to the size of the Sun itself. Even a "small" sunspot, hardly visible, is as big around as the Earth is.
Goddes of the earth?
Gaia was the Earth itself, Demeter the goddess of the harvest on earth.
What Means earth heat and is old as the earth itself?
Geothermal.
What is the most common solid on earth?
the most common solid on earth is earth itself!
What were gaea's responsibilities?
Gaea is the goddess of the earth, the earth and itself is of her nature.
What is largest ball in the world?
The earth itself is the largest ball on earth.
How many planet on Earth?
One - itself. Earth is a planet.
What earth does around the Sun?
Earth itself moves around the Sun.
