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I can't believe people haven't read James Lovelock's works re the Gaia hypothesis. The feedback loop is that plants produce an oxygen rich atmosphere right up t
by Peteragain 1y ago
I can't believe people haven't read James Lovelock's works re the Gaia hypothesis. The feedback loop is that plants produce an oxygen rich atmosphere right up to the point where lightning strikes would start fires that kill off enough plant life, reducing the oxygen in the atmosphere. Send plants to Venus now and in 500 billion years we can move there.
- tomaskafka 1y agoI struggle to find plants that can survive and do photosynthesis in temperatures of molten tin and sulphuric acid rain though
- tim333 1y agoI've heard of if but am put off by the flaws as suggested in the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis#Criticism_in_the_21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis#Criticism_in_t... I liked the nyt microbes in the crust article https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/magazine/earth-geomicrobiology-microbes.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/magazine/earth-geomicrobi... along those lines.