Thread · 4 tweets · 15 Sept 2018

But that's the thing: I don't think that current Gaia is self-aware, some various bits are. I'm also not sure that consciousness is relevant when comparing to terraforming like the Great Oxygenation Event or the 40 million years during which nothing could biodegrade trees!

I am also not convinced that self-awareness is better than self-regulation, we might want to look for ways to improve the latter seeing how poorly we're doing improving the former.

I feel the 2.0 label misses the opportunity to take a deep history view of the problem. Refreshing the Gaia concept is certainly useful, but I think the way to go is to make it deeper and to show just how many Gaias there have been - and how they survived.

Maybe @trekonomics has a view here? I'd love to hear.