James Lovelock, an avid environmentalist, had a very unique hypothesis that can help people understand the importance of working with the environment. His theory is that the Earth, in a sense, is a single organism in which all the Earth's physical components are directly linked to the complex systems. Basically, if people are changing the regular systems we are killing the Earth, and ourselves. Despite the fact that it is hard to think of the Earth as an organism, the point that people are just a part of what makes Earth go on and as we intrude on other parts of the organism, we destroy everything.
The Gaia hypothesis is the answer to what the human interaction with the Earth is. The less we do to help the environment, the more we ruin other parts.
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