Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

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.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.