期刊名称：Cultural Logic : an Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice
电子版ISSN：1097-3087
出版年度：2009
出版社：Department of English and Foreign Languages
摘要：I have been intrigued by the Gaia hypothesis since reading Lovelock’s original papers in the early 1970s. I read Lovelock’s first Gaia book in 1980, and over the years my interest in Gaia has grown and deepened. I honor James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis for fertilizing a vast field of productive speculation, observation, and experiment – the Gaian research program. And I have always believed that the best way to show respect to the founders of a field is to take their proposals seriously while subjecting them to sustained critique. Here I will mainly focus on the ethical and environmental prescriptions that are coming from those influenced by the Gaian discourse and vision. But first I will give my brief take on the fundamental issue of whether there is a Gaia theory which addresses the current status of scientific Gaia.
