The Revenge of Gaia

http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article338830.ece

This guy came up with the original idea in the seventies, that the Earth is more like a single, living organism, than a hunk of rock conveniently littered with a dusting of resources for us to loot. The argument is that there is a fine balance by which She regulates her atmosphere and makeup; any change in the chemistry of the air, oceans, caused by polution, deforesting, etc... are giving her a severe fever from which she will cure herself by a fitful, 100 000 year long coma during which humanity will cling in a primitive remnant to the newly balmy arctic.

Why do I get all dreamy and excited when I think of being part of a return to a scattered, pre-industrial village economy? Probably because in my cyber-era comfort I'm so naively detached from things like mortality, A) to realize the very plausible idea that I would be one of the casualties of such a cataclysmic event, or the petty war-torn chaos of it's aftermath, rather than one of the noble and neo-primeval survivors, and B) to feel shock and horror at the prospect of the literally billions of deaths that would accompany mine. Yay for GenY detachment!

Dugald Christie: modern-day martyr

http://www.canadianchristianity.com/cgi-bin/bc.cgi?bc/bccn/0999/robinhood
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/08/01/bc-lawyer.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Christie

How does a hero like this not get major coverage outside of BC? I'm thinking not so much for his own glorification but for the way in which his story could inspire others to follow suit in other provinces and countries, in other fields and professions.