Gaianist

plural Gaianists

1. An adherent of Gaianism.

   Lovelock’s hypothesis does not attribute intelligence to Gaia. But many Gaianists do: particularly deep ecologists and New Agers.

   1993, David Pepper, Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice, Routledge, published 2003, →ISBN

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   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).

   1992, A. M. Mannion, S. R. Bowlby, editors, Environmental Issues in the 1990s, Wiley, →ISBN, page 166

   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).

   2000, Martin Phillips, Tim Mighall, Society and Exploitation Through Nature, London; New York, N.Y.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 30

   Synonyms: Gaian