On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:06:20 +0000, Tim Streater
wrote:

That's what James Lovelock says, anyway. [1]

[1] He of the Gaia Hypothesis (note the use of the word hypothesis) [2]

[2] A strong proponent of nuclear power, and quite fed up with all the
flower-power airy-fairy new-age do-gooders who have taken his Gaia idea
and mis-interpreted it to mean that the rocks are alive etc etc.

I've met people like that. Fruitcakes is too polite a word for them.