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Perhaps The Single Most Important Thing That We Can Do To Undo The Harm We Have Done Is To Fix Firmly In Our Minds The Thought: The Earth Is Alive.

Our Planet Consists Largely Of Lumps Of Fall-out From A Star-sized Hydrogen Bomb. Within Our Bodies, No Less Than Three Million Atoms Rendered Unstable In That Event Still Erupt Every Minute, Releasing A Tiny Fraction Of The Energy Stored From That Fierce Fire Of Long Ago.

If You Start Any Large Theory, Such As Quantum Mechanics, Plate Tectonics, Evolution, It Takes About 40 Years For Mainstream Science To Come Around. Gaia Has Been Going For Only 30 Years Or So.

Evolution Is A Tightly Coupled Dance, With Life And The Material Environment As Partners. From The Dance Emerges The Entity Gaia.

By 2040, The Sahara Will Be Moving Into Europe And Berlin Will Be As Hot As Baghdad. Atlanta Will End Up A Kudzu Jungle. Phoenix Will Become Uninhabitable, As Will Parts Of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising Seas) And London (floods). Food Shortages Will Drive Millions Of People North, Raising Political Tensions.