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76 comments on The IEA WEO 2008: Will coal usage be phased out?
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In my college courses it was called Gaia, but no matter. The notion that nature has an intentionality seems a little far fetched to me, but to be intellectually consistent, it must hold that h.sapiens has no intentionality either.
PeakPlus' comment does get at the serious difficulty of attempting to hold the earth in a steady state, just the way we like it. Our complex social and economic systems demand that stability. In the medium and long run, it's probably not possible.
Sorry, Gea is an engineering group in Germany..
And Sorry: was proposed by Lovelock, not Lovins..
Exactly: I'm pointing to a philisophical question that is skipped by many a die-off expert.
Cheers, Dom
The Gaia theory is an interesting thought experiment, to understand the concept of bio albedo feedback, but because of it's gross oversimplification it has rather limited practical value.