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Gaia hypothesis states that both life and non-living chemistry eg the carbon cycle, are interactive and interdependent and include many feedbacks which over geologic time scales sustain habitable conditions on earth resulting in a stable and self-correcting equilibrium.

On the other hand, Medea hypothesis proposes that life, understood as a superorganism, may be more often than not self-destructive or suicidal, prone to exhaust all available resources, poisoning itself and going extinct. Microbial-triggered mass extinctions result in returns to the microbial-dominated state it has been for most of its history of Earth.

Which one is correct?

>> No.15155812

>>15155008
Gaia

>> No.15155817

>>15155812
fpbp /thread

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>i am soience!!!
>i am the savior of planet earth!!
>i own the whole planet!
>its mine! stop doing things i don't like on it!!
>stop driving that car!! i can't even afford a car of my own on my saintly low soientist salary, therefore nobody deserves to have one.
>everyone who earns less than me is totally low IQ and stupid, everyone who earns more is incredibly evil and greedy
>the fate of planet earth is mine alone to decide, i am soience, hear me roar!

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>>15155008

>Which one is correct?

None. Snek theory applies however.