Gaianist

English Etymology From en Gaian ist. Noun An adherent of Gaianism. en A. M. Mannion; S. R. Bowlby Environmental Issues in the 1990s Wiley 1992 166 0-471-93326-0 Gaianists derive their ideas from the recent theory of James Lovelock, who argues that the biosphere operates as if it were a single living entity which he calls Gaia, after the Greek Goddess of the earth (Chapter 1). en David Pepper Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice w:Routledge 1993 2003 0-415-09718-5 Lovelock’s hypothesis does not attribute intelligence to Gaia. But many Gaianists do: particularly deep ecologists and New Agers. en Martin Phillips; Tim Mighall Society and Exploitation Through Nature London; New York, N.Y. w:Prentice Hall 2000 30 0 582 27725 6 Rather than talk of increasing control of nature, deep ecologists and Gaianists, for example, warn of the ‘revenge of nature’, a notion that has also started to appear in some recent environmental histories such as that of Murphy (1994). Synonyms en Gaian