Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet (9th Edition)

Published by Wiley
ISBN 10: 1118427327
ISBN 13: 978-1-11842-732-3

Chapter 3 - Dollars and Environmental Sense: Economics of Environmental Issues - Critical Thinking Issue - Page 56: 1

Answer

According to James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis, which was first put forth in 1972, Earth's living creatures work in concert with the inorganic environment around them to create and sustain the climate and biochemical conditions necessary for life.

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The Gaia hypothesis definition can be stated as an interaction between living organisms on Earth and their inorganic surroundings that forms a complex, self-regulating, and synergistic system that helps perpetuate and maintain optimum conditions for life on the planet.It was proposed that the Gaia principle may be used to discover life in the atmospheres of distant planets. James Lovelock's Gaia theory was a considerably less expensive and more dependable technique to employ such interactive combinations to identify the possibility of life on worlds other than Earth.
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