mystics and certain apologists for industry who saw the Gaian vision of a self-policing global environ- ment as a license to pollute. But now, be- cause of increased appreciation of feed- back mechanisms, scientists are beginning to pay serious attention to the idea.
The problem, Schneider suggests, is that there is more than one Gaia hypothesis. "The realization that climate and life mu- tually influence each other is pro- found. . . . Nonetheless, to say that climate and life 'grew up together,'...