I am of course prejudiced in favour of Gaia and have filled my life for the past twenty-five years with the thought that Earth may be alive: not as the ancients saw her "a sentient Goddess with a purpose and foresight "but alive like a tree. ... Historical and geological records show that Earth warms and cools in fits and starts, not at a co...

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