Earthy Realism
Earthy Realism GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. It has a scientific side, as shown by the…
Specifikacia Earthy Realism
Earthy Realism
GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which bring biology and geology together to study the continuity of the cycle. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless.
What the contributors to this book believe is needed is to bring these two angles together. It also has a visionary or spiritual aspect. With global warming now an accepted fact, the lessons of GAIA have never been more relevant and