Societas: Earthy Realism: the Meaning of Gaia

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. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. 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. It also has a visionary or spiritual aspect. What the contributors to this book believe is needed is to bring these two angles together. With global warming now an accepted fact, the lessons of GAIA have never been more relevant and urgent. global warming,climate change,Gaia hypothesis,ecology,environment,Gaia,earth,world,nature,life,physical world,inert,earth science,biology,geology,spirituality,living earth Patricia Spallone: The Gaia Effect -- Making the LinksAnne Primavesi: Can Gaia Forgive Us? John Mead: The Human Psyche & the Imminence of Climate Catastrophe David Midgley: Climate Change and Spiritual Transformation Susan Canney: Reconnecting a Divided World -- Links Between the Global and the Local Maggie Gee: Imagining Gaia -- Art Living Lightly With Science Elaine Brook: Gaia and the Sacred Feminine Back matter Other titles by Imprint Academic and Andrews UK.