More insights into the theology of Gaia

The seeders and the seeds:

If beavers build a dam, it is perfectly natural. If men build a dam it is an assault on nature. A beehive is beautiful, an apartment complex is an eyesore. How can we reconcile this? In the purely material world, the world of matter and energy, the one devoid of gods and spirit, nature is all there is. Every human artefact is as natural as a flower, because it can be nothing else. There is nothing that is not a part of nature. Nature is all there is.

If one is to paint human action as toxic and unnatural, there has to be something outside of nature, either something above it, or something below it. So the goddess returns in her new incarnation as Gaia. We have sinned against her, and so fallen out of nature.\

We are the key. The only way living planets can possibly reproduce is to spawn intelligent life. Life capable of developing interstellar travel, capable of spreading life to other worlds. We are the ones entrusted with this task. The dolphins, the chimps, the whales, the parrots, none of them can do this. We are the only chance for Gaia. She created us to save her. But if we take Watson’s advice we condemn Gaia and all life to die when the sun finally reduces us to ashes. This would be a colossal failure of nerve and purpose, a dereliction of duty, a betrayal of life itself.

Consider a fetal bird, growing inside the egg. Slowly it devours all the energy resources in its small world, which grows ever more cramped. Should the bird try to reduce its footprint and so stave off the end just a little longer? Our purpose is not to graze alongside the buffalo, or to catch fish by hand. Our task is to ensure that Gaia’s children flourish long after Sol’s third planet is no more. We are not a virus or a cancer. We are Gaia’s only chance. She created us for a purpose, to take her througout the galaxy. We are the seeders, and we are the seeds. That is the true environmentalism.