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World Service,09 May 1996,28 mins

Earth as a Super Organism

A Green History of the Planet

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Dr. James Lovelock, who proposed the Gaia hypothesis, theorised that the Earth functions as a super organism. Helen Sharman the first Briton to go into space in 1991 describes its beauty from above.

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