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The interviewer says James Lovelock's Gaia theory encouraged people to view Earth as a system rather than focusing on humans as individuals.
Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, I was inspired by James Lovelock's Gaia theory,”
“which was, you know, kind of stimulating people to think about the Earth as a system rather than us as individuals.”Play from 16:55Report a misattribution
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