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The Medea Hypothesis: “life will cause its own end” (debunking the Gaia Hypothesis)

The Medea Hypothesis: “life will cause its own end” (debunking the Gaia Hypothesis)

In The Christian Science Monitor, Moises Velasquez-Manoff reviews the new book ‘The Medea Hypothesis’ that ‘looks at the opposite of the Gaia hypothesis and suggests that life on Earth is self-destructive.’ The Gaia hypothesis, first formulated in the 1960s by the British scientist James Lovelock as the “earth feedback hypothesis,” suggests that [...]