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
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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