The Gaia Hypothesis to be Promoted to a Theory
by Nichola Ward
I'm reassured to find this notion
(That the ripples in another ocean
affect the waves in mine)
Is almost ALMOST at the stage
Of being accepted as a theory
Hurrah for this Aquarian age
One cannot help but feel a little teary
That men of science who once disputed
Unifying study
Of this so called "bio-sphere"
As if it were one "giant organism"
As if the things we do in other places
Contribute to this planet's homoestasis
Those self same men
Now almost ALMOST universally
Tentatively
Possibly
Are prepared to shift from
An HYPOTHESIS:
A merely suggested explanation
to
The Gaia THEORY:
A POSSIBLE explanation
To be clear:
Promotion to the Gaia THEORY
Doesn't mean it's true
Just that you can safely study it
And have your research grants come through
Ah beyond their moral courage
and their sage precision
I marvel at the speed
Of this difficult and brave decision
That we are NEARLY there
In less than four or five
Short decades
Barely even half a century
Ah tis pause for thought indeed
But since we we pause for thought
Theoretical
Let me posit something
Hypothetical
At the risk of sounding strident or heretical
I wonder if those men of science
Would have been less deaf
If instead of Lady Gaia
Our planet
Had been christened Jeff
