Dr. Stephan Harding - Part 1 / 10 - Gaia Theory & Deep Ecology

In 10 episodes here on YouTube Dr. Harding lead you into a new understanding of our beloved mother Earth. Earth, or Gaia as he prefers to say, needs to be taken care of now. The human rase is about to amuse itself to death on how we exploit the resources.

Inspired by James Lovelock (1919 - ) who is a pioneer and rolemodel in this field. He is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurist. He is known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism.

This qoute from the great philosopher says it all: "All life has intrinsic value, irrespective of its value to humans" - Arne Naess, (1912 - 2009) RIP

Arne Næss was the founder of deep ecology. He is widely regarded as the foremost Norwegian philosopher of the 20th century

Dr. Harding is bringing it all together!

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[perasplarsen]

This is so very, very important! Please watch it and share it. I cant believe this has been view only 594 times - and I have seen it twice! A monkey falling on it ass gets 2 mill views and noone watches this... Thanks for posting mate...

[jrdohmen]

Thanks! I agree. Important stuff has seldom entertaining value.

- You could watch the other 9 videos in this series ;)

[b0wlman]

what's up with the sound?

[jrdohmen]

When in the clip does this occur? Tested now andeverything seems okay - tested with Firefox and Safari. Sound is compressed with mp4-standard at YouTube...

[EnviroUpdate]

After summarizing the increasingly serious environmental problems and threats we're facing now all over the world, Dr. Harding says (2:40): "If you don't get depressed, you need to see a therapist on this issue; there's something wrong with you, if you don't get depressed about this. You need help to work out, why you're not depressed." He's the first person I've ever heard to say this in public. Thanks to Mr. Harding for his honesty and courage! Hope people will listen to him.

[shikrafapp]

hello, I am a biodiversity developer. I designed a park for an Egyptian client on the following concept : don't invent nature, invite it! I wanted to share it with you as it is a deep ecology thought.

egyptlifescape.blogspot.com/20­11/11/sustainable-egyptian-urb­an-park.html

[MegaASHRAH]

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[LunaRedHawk]

@sequentialproduction... How is there a contradiction about humans being able to alter the earth in ways, if humans are a part of the earth and its self-regulating systems? We are not in isolation here, we are in active participation with the earth. These are only contradictions of semantics, but my understanding is comprehensive of many integral philosophers and is more open to possibilities, I suppose. Harding is a respected philosopher, who are you?

[Wigzelleleven]

The Mayans believed that this is the last apocalypse one of fire. I wish we could fix it.

[nmybox]

How surprised will we all be when we learn that the Earth its self is the being(s) that is responsible for this, or the Sun. Actually it’s a team effort and the other planets are getting it too. But we all ignore this and run around like Chicken Little. The real issue is that is not a DAMN thing we can do about it.

[rabbitspliff]

Just curious, how many here are aware of (and of those, who agrees with) the likes of VHEMT, Church of Euthanasia (Their 1 commandment), and/or any other ecologically based childfree movement? Admittedly it's easy for me, being a guy and having already decided to be childfree for personal, social (/societal) and political reasons, but the way I see it, nature doesn't need our help, for us to manage it, or to save it. It just needs us to piss off and go extinct, like 20k+ species p.a already do.

[john81blaze]

i want to cry...who the fuck is letting this happen

[scruffthemagicdragon]

I like this guy. It's especially telling that "Earth System Science" is respectable but "Gaia" is not.

[Ontologistics]

This scaremongering sounds like a Jehovas Witness' account of the forthcoming apocalypse. There is no doubt a Christian eschatological legacy implicit here.

Whatever catastrophes come to pass, life will evolve to meet the new conditions - as it has done innumerable times in the past.

[dltanner99]

The Dare Island Enigma is a novel concerning the Gaia Hypothesis see video book trailer