Fully agree with the notion of Nature having political and legal standing.... imagine if.... But wasn't the Gaia Hypothesis the faintly Teleological philosophy that the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and pedosphere all apparently "work together" to create ideal conditions for sustaining life on earth...?
I prefer to wonder if the only reason the Earth Organism tolerates humanity is because we have the potential to redirect asteroids and one day take life interplanetary and interstellar....
AlfredSouthWhitehead t1_irrm1s2 wrote
Reply to Bruno Latour Tracks Down Gaia: "Such a world has nothing to do with ecology, but quite simply with a politics of living things". An essay by Latour in which he discusses the work of the Gaia theorist James Lovelock. Bruno Latour (1947-2022) was a French philosopher and sociologist of science. by amondyyl
Fully agree with the notion of Nature having political and legal standing.... imagine if.... But wasn't the Gaia Hypothesis the faintly Teleological philosophy that the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and pedosphere all apparently "work together" to create ideal conditions for sustaining life on earth...?
I prefer to wonder if the only reason the Earth Organism tolerates humanity is because we have the potential to redirect asteroids and one day take life interplanetary and interstellar....