The most important ideational turning-point in our lifetime is the shift to thinking of Earth as, “in some sense, alive.” It’s not so much the notion that Earth is “an organism” (though there is a sense in which it is that) as it is an appreciation of the complete interpenetration of life with the Earth’s surface layer, several miles below and several more above into the atmosphere; and the extent to which life sustains itself by regulating the processes and adapting itself to the Earth’s natural cycles, to maintain conditions it needs to exist.
Interconnectedness