James Lovelock Explains Gaia Hypothesis on The Sacred Balance (TV)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- David Suzuki talks with James Lovelock about the origins of his "Gaia" hypothesis, which suggests that the Earth is one organism. From the documentary series "The Sacred Balance", produced by Kensington Communications (www.kensingtontv.com.) Available on demand: vimeo.com/onde...
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If you haven't read James Lovelocks "The revenge of Gaia" I can highly recommend it. A wonderful book.
Read both of them as a teen. Loved it.
She, Gaia, is a living, breathing organism! I have no doubt about that. Anyone who has spent time at contemplation in the wilderness can experience that first hand. She is alive and talking to us!🌏💚 I call her "The Mother of mothers"
No. No one can intuit that stuff of nonsense without immersion in a cultural tradition. Regulation is not free. Regulation requires a surplus of energy to maintain a fixed dynamic and maintain it's motion. A completely dark void is perfectly balanced and changeless. A dead thing is more in balance that a living one.
@@MagnumInnominandumI disagree with you, and I know from my direct experience, which is deeper than the filters of acculturation. There are things that science still can't explain, and certain phenomenon is beyond the narrow comprehension of the limited human mind.
This is my favorite video to introduce my design students to sustainable design, integrated design process and systems thinking. It is a paradigm shift for many, certainly it was for me! Thank you David Suzuki and James Lovelock
In many ways, science is catching up with the ancient beliefs. I don't agree with Lovelock on everything, but he is certainly right about the Earth.
Hi Chris. Glad you found the video insightful at least in some way.
Serious question: Is this not a concept that everyone just naturally grasps? More or less an innate understanding?
i think thats how alot of Pantheists come to be. just intuition. "I get it"
You would b surprised, litter on the ground, people’s treatment of each other, rampant wonton destruction of resources, these are signs to me of otherwise understanding
I guess the point is that as the human race we have become accustomed to destroying the earth so that it fits our needs, and though this theory shouldn't have to be explained, its still a radical reminding that we cannot make the world fit our needs, but we must fit its needs.
Yes, and it always has been. But the empirical, materialistic scientific orthodoxy kills that instinct in humanity. It takes a bit of an outsider like Lovelock to help us remember what we already knew, but updated with modern scientific terminology.
Perhaps it would be, if people weren’t brainwashed from infancy into the Dogma of their parents religion, or other beliefs.
Mother Earth always takes care of itself
Wonderful conception. Sad that the music must be so loud as to detract from the voice sound.
just because calcium and magnesium are sustainable for bone density, that doesn't classify as biotic either.
water, however, replenishes your bodily fluids, and smooths your skin, because the human body is made up of 78% of water, so it needs it.
it doesn't conclude that water is an living thing you know.
Thanks Paloma for your reply. You're correct. Point well taken. My heart got ahead of my head. Your remark helped be get both back in alignment with one another. Yes, the USA is only a portion of the Americas. Yes, this is a complex issue that deserved more than my brief surface reply. At the same time, there are SOME Native cultures on the planet that precedes James Lovelock and deserves to be acknowledged. If you study Native cultures within the continent of Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world you will find that the concept of Earth as a living organism is not new. Nevertheless, thank you for your comment. It's truly appreciated.
I've been a proud Gaian for a good while now and it is, without a doubt, one of the most beneficial belief systems to endorse.
If this was taught in schools, rather than "mainsteam" religion - there would be substantially less violence, substantially less war and substantially more precautionary measures taken in regards to pollution.
Gaia is our beautiful mother. It's the only "religion" that makes any physical sense. It NEEDS to be globally expressed. For the good of all living organisms.
🎶 Greenwash - The Musical 🎶 in memory of James Lovelock ❤️
It's a pity more people in this world aren't ruled by their heart a little more often. This is beautiful. Does everything have to be condensed into molecular composition to be heralded of benefit and usefulness? I have just written a song and uploaded it to You Tube called Tears of Gaia. (From England) Sometimes you just have to go with your gut !!!! Isnt it obvious that we are destroying our planet and desecrating mother earths fragile balance? If we are all so aware of the connection with other life forms and have been for centuries why oh why are we on this fiery road to self destruction along with all other life forms on this planet?
On a side note the people who disrespect the great earth mother they tend to be unhealthy to which is a big one in my opinion, and again deception is the name of the game for the system
I love the idea that the earth is alive. I like to think of earth like a giant plasma ball, as we step on her a line of plasma connects us to her core which allows data to flow between us, energizing us both. I believe its this separation that's causing so many health problems. The less we connect with earth the more disconnected we feel, which makes us over indulge in the things we enjoy, drinking, smoking, gambling, fucking, gaming, porn, sleeping pills, pain killers. nothing can replace the simple act of connecting with yo Mumma. Do it.
And go vegan, you'll love yourself for it, the animals you don't eat will love you for it, and most of all Gaia will love you for it.
@Aridanx - He didnt say the world is a "single" organism, he said its a super organism which it does resemble. Humans arent living outside of a self regulating balance (communities were often nomadic), we are in the middle of that self regulating shift as we have just entered globalisation. you should read his book.
Gaia is not an idea. It's something I can see with my own eyes. Something that trancetechnicians percieve and communicate (with) since thousands of years.
Gosh, only 99785 veiws!?
I think only this much will survive in 2040!
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Well she's pretty pissed at us. We've evolved into malignant cells.
Native people knew this from ancient times. This is not new. It's like Columbus discovering America. It's not real until an Anglo/Euro person documents it? Really? Natives in America shared this love and understanding of Gaia before European settles visited genocide upon 6 million of them. Native people in the USA are now less than 1 million. Honor Native people. They knew and know that the planet is a living being that is held in balance that "has deep roots in human tradition". That's the close we'll get in this video as a nod to Native people. Honor the truth. Honor Native people and their wisdom.
I totally agree with your sentiment Anthony Glenn Miller. I also think that replacing mechanistic models of life with this model of Gaia is a huge step in the right direction, and that's what Lovelock has been doing. That doesn't make it more "real" than it was before, but it (hopefully) does lead to less people imposing our small minded view of Earth and our place on it and more people doing something positive with this information. And in his books, Lovelock acknowledges those who have seen what he's talking about before he did; he doesn't attempt to claim the idea as only his own even, although he's elaborated and published numerous details about this hypothesis that nobody else had before.
Dylan Eichenberg
Thank you for your thoughtful response Dylan. It's much appreciated. Forward gently.
Actually, Lovelock's Gaia theory is science, a theoretical proposition re ecology, and Lovelock never argued that it was anything science, nor did he suggest that it was not mechanistic, whereas native or indian tradition is exclusively religious. The issue raised by Gaia was what is the scope of ecological science? Does it include geology and climate science etc?
if i can mention this, all american natives how you say, is all the people in the continent named America, not only USA. may I ask you why this country name like this?? America is a continent not only a country that believe to be the only country in the world!!! if you study a little bit, the Mayan civilization knew too much also, even when the Spaniards arrived to LatinAmerica and killed thousands of them and destroyed many sacred information that they had, I agree with you with the honor to the natives, in my country, Mexico, we had less than a million of native people and many of them are killing themselves because the goverment doesnt help them.
try to be informed before to talk.
many other cultures knew about myths and knowledge.
What an ignorant view to hold.
Very important for me...
In memory of James, Greenwash - The Musical 🎶 coming 🔜
David taught some of my lectures at U of T , they were memorable
The idea isn't that Earth is literally a living, breathing, reproducing entity. It is that the life on Earths surface plays a large role in regulating the chemistry of our atmosphere. Do you disagree that plants are large producers of gases present in our atmosphere?
The astronomer Carl Sagan remarked that from a cosmic viewpoint, the space probes since 1959 have the character of a planet preparing to go to seed.
Earth is using humans to plant a seed on another planet!!
It's a quaint notion that the world is in fact a single organism but that simply just isn't the case. For one thing the earth doesn't reproduce, which is a requirement of being a living organism. And from a less technical standpoint it is clear that humans are existing out of this self regulating balance. One thing that I do agree with about this theory is that the earth has the potential to shift from what we perceive to be the norm to a mode which would prove far less hospitable for us.
If metals are abiotic what about the oxidized calcium/magnesium alloy that makes up your endoskeleton? .... you might want to try reading a bit more....
wow, it sounds like this is the begining of a new religion. just like old religions were created from people observations during times of lesser technologies, now we have new beliefs being formed based off of observations from greater technologies.
The Dare Island Enigma is a novel concerning the Gaia Hypothesis see the video book trailer
Sounds like my boi David Suzuki
I think now I can give you a better example of what I meant. Two months ago, I came to the conclusion that words and arguments won't show you what my eyes can see.
I think now you can see Gaia with your own eyes: 'Space Oddity ISS'. Countless people are touched and shook by the power of those 5 minutes.
Chris Hadfield talks about this himself in his video 'Captain Kirk Chats Up Countryman on Station' at about 17:14
Yes, this raises a few relevant and yet more or less completely unknown questions. How does consciousness (especially the hard problem of consciousness and qualia) and life emerge from lifeless matter? If we define life itself as biotic, certainly anything abiotic is lifeless per se.
I suppose the idea in Gaia is that life is connected to (and indistinguishable from) Earth, so therefore one could say that Earth can do these.
I personally don't put much belief in Gaia though, just to be clear!
Amazing
The Gaia Hypothesis is a major concept in Druidism and I'm very proud to a Zen Druid in the 21st Century
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seing the connections among events
that is part of the definition of superstition.
It is VERY easy to see connections, it is only through scientific investigation that you will discover disconnections that you never knew about.
Fascinating.
I usually don't leave comments, good or bad, but I have to. The music here is too loud, compared with James' voice. It is really hard to listen to him sometimes. Too bad :(
Kensington TV should do better.
How is this different from a religion?
It isn't.
It is based on evidence, not on convenient feel-good fictions.
The music is annoying.
We should help earth
I suppose that similarly we are made up of carbon, hydrogen and a variety of metals (Cu, Zn, Fe...). But for some yet unknown reason we posess a feature called consciousness. Maybe it's just that our definition of life is wrong. If we dwell deep enough into the atom we will notice that even matter doesn't exist as such.
Not to say that this in any way proves the Gaia hypothesis, but it's just something to think about. Food for thought. I find it a fascinating and harmless concept though!
carbon, hydrogen, and variety of metals are "sustainers of life", not life itself
in order for the planet earth to be biotic, it must have "complex thoughts", and "reproduction"(which planets cannot do).
plants are biotic, because they can "reproduce", and "absorb sunlight" so it can grow.
can planets do that?
yes
It's such a shame that this video, and others of James Lovelock have been viewed by so few people.
I would hope everyone posts them on their facebook or myspace. It's more important than ever that messages like this are brought to the publics attention.
James Lovelock is a great communicator, and if people were given the facts as he sees them they might not be so complacent to think that recycling their milk cartons once a week is enough to save the Earth.
Maybe now with his death people will pay attention. Isn't that often the way it goes?
well of course. plants are classified as biotic, but our planet does registered as abiotic, because it doesn't have all the necessary requirements of an living organism. the planet's core is made of molten metal, so metals are considered to be abiotic, not biotic.
I came up with this idea independently when smoking a doobie a few years back before I’d even heard about Gaia theory. Where’s my Nobel prize
Lovelock came up with Gaia hypothesis back in 1970's, you're a few yrs too late. He beat you to it.
The biosphere is alive.
I'm sorry, 2015? Do you mean....some other year? Not to mention that he is not yet dead...
Apparently Canadians think Venus is blue.
Have u heard the term 'life as we know it'? Nobody knows if there is silicon or selenium based life in the universe, or whether its all carbon based- thats a scientific fact. When the Earth becomes geologically inactive it will 'die'. Until u know all the bounds and precepts for defining life throughout the universe u shouldn't disparage what neither u or anyone else yet fully understands. As for balance, the universe and everything in it are very well balanced.
Native Americans from North America knows and knew this but maybe they didn’t called it Gaia.... exemple :around 60 millions buffalos were running free and togheter before europeans :
Lmfao…….. what about all the species native Americans wiped out like the mammoths
@@peanutrbuckle9123 mammoths were all over the world! In the past!!,.north American natives used to have a very strong culture of nature preservation but a real one 👌 not the hypocrisy of the present world
OK, so, this is the first time that I have come to know about this particular hypothesis. But I believe most of us have articulated the same idea and have reached the same conclusion with school level knowledge of ecology, the idea just seems too generic and conspicuous to be presented in scientific writing.
And when it comes to the convincebility of the idea. It's sad that there are well educated people that are not supporting the idea. It is certainly not a science fiction.
Earth might be lucky to have just the right mixture of life sustaining conditions, but their regulation is equally important, and it will not be very offensive to think that life does it on its own.
@@tw3223 Life influences abiotic components of this planet in a way that creates a feedback loop, as a result, the abiotic component always try to remain in a state that favours the existence of life. i.e The planet itself is a comprehensive living organism that can regulate its environment in favour of the support of its Biosphere.
Spelling error: 'predict'
We need ☀️ sunlight so means Gaia theory applies to our solar system.galaxy and the whole universe
how did you come to see this?
@mizikmoi Gaia is far more alive and real than the God of religion that's for certain. Every inch of her moves and changes, right to her mighty core. She's waking from a long hibernation that's all. The reality ahead of us is the worship of ourselves as the Earth, with the Earth. We've done everything else, it's all that's left!
Today 4/25/2020. The World is in lockdown due to the COVID 19 VIRUS. I wonder how the Gaia hypothesis will come into play? Will the weather change? Where we are today, is a good thing. But how we got here is a disaster.
Its because people lost thé greek religion that they are now rediscovering what ait obvious, how Gaia on of the primordials gods , operate.
For those who dont know she is the first living organism on earth , she ils Earth the planet , and she can take form of a woman, like others entities like the Night who are also primordials gods.
I think Gaia and the others have been sighted sometimes more or less recently
If science can explain everything, why did it not perdict the most simplest things, e.g. Rock n Roll? Did one scientist perdict that?! Culture is off limits to scientific explanations. Can science explain turbulence?
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There are (allegedly) 7 billion humans on Earth. Literally none pay any attention to the mighty (and living) god beneath our feet. As more massive numbers begin shifting focus to her glory, there will be an immense restructuring. We will cause a tremendous crushing inward upon Earth's core and our ancient goddess will reveal herself at last.
It is precisely the reason why this planet is trouble. Too many people can not see the interconnected nature of all things. Read E O Wilson
iam not a religious person. I thought about the posebility of "Gaia theory", withou any knowledge about it is excisting. I started my thinkin rocess with a Game ( Final Fantasy 7) later with the Movie (Final Fantasy : Spirits within). a. It sounds logical b. it sounds beatiful, we are all a part of that big thing. Noneed a sacrifiing Messiah. Or an allmighty God with endless goodness who let ppl die in Africa. All relgions i've heard dont sounds true to me. This is the only thing i can handle.
@uninoculated interesting comment
i see that you don't put too much belief in the "gaia theory".
i respect your position, sir.
but let me clarify my position here.....supposed that the earth is an "living organism", because we have "storms" and other "natural disasters", and it was all caused by humans actions, so mother nature must have her revenge on her children for polluting the environment.(and by the way, i am not encouraging pollution).
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U are not alive, planet earth is alive.
Gaia is a very interesting idea
but it is also a very naive and stupid idea
there is really no way for it to be possible that the earth as a single common interest.