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Research shows that even such a small change could lead to dire consequences such as massive glaciers melting, change in sea level, and can kill millions of organisms on land and in the ocean that are sensitive to the slightest change in temperature. In a large ecosystem like earth, 2☌ might seem like an insignificant change. A slight change in conditions severely affects both the systems: Eg: If the body temperature goes just over a little higher than 1☌, it leads to fever and higher than 2☌ would require medical attention.
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Our body is only 10% human and 90% microbial, as we have 9 times more microbial cells than human cells. The Earth is home to millions of diverse species and organisms and so is the human body.Both are made up of a huge percentage of water.Both are living systems, with physical, chemical, and biological interactions happening continuously. The Human Body can serve as a good model for the Earth system. The hypothesis has now been recognized as ‘Gaia Theory’ as it is supported and backed by numerous scientific experiments and the theory is being researched further in the multidisciplinary fields of Earth science, evolutionary biology, and biogeochemistry. The hypothesis initially drew much criticism and ridicule, citing lack of scientific rigour and was accused of being theological and esoteric. The Earth’s habitability, the global temperature, its oxygen-rich atmosphere, the ocean salinity, and its relatively stable climate are maintained in a state of homeostasis not just by abiotic processes but regulated by the beings on her and by Gaia herself, as a superorganism. According to Lovelock, the evolution of Earth and the life forms on earth, was a tightly coupled process and not separate parallel processes. He named it the Gaia Hypothesis – Gaia being the Goddess Mother Earth in Greek Mythology and popularized ‘geophysiology’. In the 1970s, a British scientist named James Lovelock put forth a hypothesis that viewed the Earth as a single organism and suggested that living organisms on earth interact with their physical and chemical surroundings to form a synergizing and self-regulating complex system that co-evolves life on Earth. The Gaia Hypothesis:Īs science became more fragmented in its approach, this wholesome view of the earth did not proceed into the scientific thought of the next century. He referenced Harvey’s theories of circulation of blood in our body and compared it to Earth’s nutrient cycles and water cycles. Much like the human body and its various systems that work interdependently, the Earth too functioned like a single organism, he said. James Hutton, known as the father of geology is recorded to have said at the Royal Society of Edinburgh that he thought of Earth as a superorganism and that its proper study would be by physiology. Scientists did not shy away from the idea of viewing the earth as a living entity in the 1700s.
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Oh Mother Earth, You Who have the Ocean as Your Garments, and Mountains as Your Bosom, O Consort of Lord Vishnu, Salutations to You Please Forgive the touch of my feet on Earth, which is Your Holy Body. It is for this reason that we remind ourselves every day when we wake up and place our feet on her, with a prayer, seeking her forgiveness: The weight of our actions, both individual and collective, bear heavily upon our Mother. The epitome of forbearance, compassion, and patience, she holds us and carries our weight on our evolutionary journey. Our Sanathana Dharma provides us with the spiritual and philosophical tools for a deep ecological approach that acknowledges and worships the inseparable nature of Divinity and Mother Nature.
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She is the mother of every life that has ever taken birth from her and has lived upon her. Bhoomi Devi is our Sacred Goddess Mother Earth.