From Lovelock and Margulis's Gaia to the Daisy World model, this episode traces how life and the Earth's environments form a self-regulating system. We explore the origins, core ideas, and evolution of Gaia—weak vs strong variants, the rise of Earth system science, and the debates that challenge the notion of planetary stewardship. Along the way, we’ll discuss concrete mechanisms, big questions about anthropic bias, and what Gaia means for our place in a dynamically connected world.

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