James Lovelock's Model: The Plight Of The Gaia Model
(Gaia Packet pg.3) The Gaia Model consists of an outer circle with three parts the Physiosphere, the Biosphere, and the Noosphere. The Physiosphere is divided into the four ‘Classical’ elements and prerequisites for life; Earth (topsoil), Air (primarily oxygen), Fire (Energy), Water. From the Noosphere there are four more categories that further break down the spheres; Politics; information about power, authority, and entitlement. Economics; which is information about the exchange value of commodities, as mediated through the money system. Technology; information about properties of our physical and biological world, and Culture; information about values and priorities, the shared assumptions of societies.. Each piece of the model enhances and ties into the next, this is the base of the Gaia Model in a nutshell. The Wolves and the difficulties they face fall into two of the categories rather well, from the Physiosphere the wolves being hunted most effects in Earth, their plight and future tied to the health of the land they call home. And from the Noosphere, although it effects a little of each, politics best fits as their future is in the hands of those who are being pressured by the people who put them in office to let the mass killing of the Gray wolf