James Lovelock, inventor of the ecological concept called GAIA, wrote that "It is hubris to think that we know how to save the earth: our planet looks after itself. All that we can do is try to save ourselves." A friend of mine put it another way: "The earth will save itself through evolution. Man needs to get creative to learn to live in the new environment." The other thing often glossed over is that the earth's 7 billion population is already well above earth's long-term carrying capacity and that for complete sustainability, probably a total population in the range of 100 million to one billion is the maximum. We have to squeeze through the bottleneck somehow.
I will address these issues in my forthcoming speculative fiction novels, starting with Creatopias now in process. In the meantime, you can get your The Vanishing Face of Gaia by clicking here.
