i know it is often regarded as fringe science, but lovelocks gaia hypothesis is still one of the better ideas i've read how the world might work. maybe it just aligns with my own (spiritual) views, but that the earth is a complex system we haven't understood as whole seems to be evident.

some of lovelocks ideas are now reconsidered as putting biomass-coal into the soil to fixate CO2 and to improve the soil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta). maybe we should've started earlier with those.

as with everyone he was hit and miss with his ideas, i think they would have deserved some more attention and less ridicule. his climate doomsday scenarios seem to be true after all.