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Tony Bondhus ... in his book, Society of Conceivia, [says] that if Gaia is alive, than societies are living things as well. This suggests that our understanding of Gaia can be used to create a better society and to design a better political system.
Gaians are attempting to create a new ideology which fuses conclusions from science and politics; they see this as a protoscience of human ecology. These ideas include the idea of humans as the keystone species, say act to prevent climate change, primate extinction, etc., and might deliberately maintain the balances of the entire biosphere with their own cognition.
Gaians argue that it is a human duty to act as such - committing themselves in particular to the Precautionary Principle. Some refer to this political activity as ... one that takes the axioms of the science of ecology in general, and Gaia theory in particular, and raises them to a kind of theory of personal conduct or moral code.
-- from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_philosophy
