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6. Don't count on it

In Novacene, James Lovelock, perhaps most famous as the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis pointed out that the Sun has become hotter over its lifetime. We are no longer in the “habitable zone.” (AKA the “Goldilocks Zone.”) A theoretical distant astronomer, examining our solar system would see Mars as the best candidate for life, but it’s dead.

It’s only the ecosystem (AKA “Gaia”) which has kept the Earth cool enough for life to thrive. If we damage the ecosystem thoroughly enough, it may not be able to recover as it has recovered in the past. (He compared it to an elderly person, who can no longer recover from diseasea as easily as they once could.)