The guy who wrote this unintentionally hilarious piece is identified thusly by The Independent:
The writer is an independent environmental scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society.
A scientist, huh? Then why is he writing things like this?:
We should be the heart and mind of the Earth, not its malady. So let us
be brave and cease thinking of human needs and rights alone, and see
that we have harmed the living Earth and need to make our peace with
Gaia. We must do it while we are still strong enough to negotiate, and
not a broken rabble led by brutal war lords. Most of all, we should
remember that we are a part of it, and it is indeed our home.
And this?:
We have given Gaia a fever and soon her condition will worsen to a state like a coma.
And this?:
My Gaia theory sees the Earth behaving as if it were alive, and clearly
anything alive can enjoy good health, or suffer disease. Gaia has made
me a planetary physician and I take my profession seriously.
I guess soon he’ll write about those other well-known scientific
approaches to knowledge: rattling chicken bones and barking at the
moon.
