Gaia Matters

By Malene Fonnes, 16 October, 2017
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Abstract (in English)

Bruce Clarke reviews Stephan Harding’s Animate Earth and James Lovelock’s recent book on Gaia, the mother of all systems.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/looped)

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Systems theory often seems counter-intuitive. The problem is not with the behavior of systems, but with the conceptually antiquated nature of our intuitions. For instance, typically, “negative” stands to “positive” as deleterious stands to desirable.