Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees ...in honey production--only to produce a race of bed-wetters!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who re...sembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record--Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages--you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »