Robert Burroughs- Gaia Theory

As for the Gaia theory, I can’t help but think that it would be right if we couldn’t think for ourselves. Humanity is the point where the Gaia theory becomes a train derailed. If all of Earth were really one big organism, at least in a sense, and it made sure that it was always taken care of in terms of temperature, number of species, etc, then the only way that could work would be if each individual piece that made up the larger organism was on some sort of track, much like most of the organisms on Earth are. When animals are only worried about surviving, as they are programmed to do, the Gaia theory can exist because everything on Earth remains predictable. But once we started to think, we left the Gaia theory behind; we became unpredictable, and the Earth doesn’t know exactly how to respond except to try and kill us off.
We, as man, should most likely just be out hunting and gathering and having sex, like all other animals. We should do what we need to do to survive and not much more. If that were the case, then everything else on Earth may be able to incorporate us into the larger scheme, whatever that scheme is. But we have culture, an we have technology, and the two together propel us much further, much faster, than an unthinking organism such as the Earth can keep up with. At this point, our only chance of survival seems to rely on our ability to understand that we have removed ourselves from whatever it is that is natural. We need to learn, quickly, how to try and reinsert ourselves into the natural order of things before Earth decides to do its best to weed us out and get the program back to normal.