Entry: The
Gaia Hypothesis
Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio,
PhD
3. Conclusion: Gay
Nature
Lovelock’s macroscopic perspective emphasizes the risk of taking
for granted that Gaia, the Earth, will always be hospitable to human life, or
even life in general. As an animated
entity, Gaia has a biography: and if we don’t pay attention, Lovelock
admonishes, the biota could dry up and Earth become just as barren as its
neighbors Mars and Venus. Margulis’s
microscopic perspective compounds this awareness from an evolutionary viewpoint. The process of autopoiesis has evolved
complex organisms like us humans out of those simple, loving, resource-sharing
bacteria. We, the new kids on the block
in evolutionary terms, have some lessons to learn. The global ecology that sustains life as we
know it is symbiotic: it is the
expression of love that results in the infinite acts of sharing resources and
collaborating within and across species and biological realms. To put it more simply: love is the ecology of
life. Take love out of the equation, and
you turn Gaia, with her beautiful blues, greens, yellows, whites, reds, and
blacks into a brownish rock like its dead neighbors. So the Gaia Hypothesis is also an axiomatic
statement that life is essentially “gay”: capable of loving for fun and across
conventional gender lines. If love is
the ecology of life, if health, pleasure, joy have been the purpose of
lovemaking since our first ancestors bacteria populated the Earth, then we may
as well hypothesize that Gaia, our hostess planet, is gay! And we better keep her gay, happy,
cheerful. How? It’s simple: by practicing love in symbiotic,
fluid, fun, erotic, ecosexy, gay, imaginative, and inclusive ways.
Or else.
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To be continued . . . . next entry: EcoSexuality. Come back next week, same time.
Sending
much love and all good wishes to all of you and your loved ones.
Thanks you for listening and opening up. Stay tuned for more coming.
With all good wishes for a happy end of winter, spring, and summer.
Thank you!
Namaste,
SerenaGaia
Namaste,
SerenaGaia
Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD
Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love Professor of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
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