'But we were just bloody lucky to live on an island. 'I lived through the Second World War and there was no way in 1939 that we could beat the Germans,' he said. Lovelock saw Britain's vast shale gas reserves as the ideal secure, transitional fuel source. Natascha Engel, the former Labour MP for North Derbyshire, had been given the job of the UK's first 'Shale Gas Commissioner' - but resigned in April 2019 (He never profited from either, as he didn't take out patents.) He was above all a practical scientist: he worked as a sort of 'Q' figure for MI5 into his 90s and was the inventor of both the microwave and the electron capture detector, which first identified the presence of man-made gases in the ozone layer. But Lovelock also believed claims for the reliability of renewable energy - intermittent wind and solar power - were exaggerated. This was despite the fact that he had been one of the most apocalyptic prophets of the risks to human existence from global warming caused by man-made CO2 emissions - calling it 'Gaia's revenge'. In 2010, he told the Guardian that 'the UK should be going mad for fracking', declaring that our untapped reserves of shale gas were essential for the country's energy security. Gaia was widely worshipped in Greece for she was the ancestor to most of the most important deities, and she was also the first goddess associated with the vitally important Oracles.Here's something you won't have read in the many obituaries of James Lovelock - best known for his 'Gaia' hypothesis that the Earth is a living organism - who died last week on his 103rd birthday. Zeus though did not punish his grandmother, and indeed Gaia would bear Zeus a son, King Manes, with Poseidon she would mother Antaeus and Charybdis, and with Hephaestus she bore King Erichthonius. Gaia would then incite her 100 Gigantes sons in rebellion, although this rebellion, the Gigantomachy, was less successful than the ones previously undertaken at her behest, for the gods of Mount Olympus, aided by Heracles, would defeat and kill the Gigantes. Gaia was initially pleased when Zeus freed her children, the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires, from Tartarus, but then was displeased when Zeus locked up many of the Titans in their place. The sixth child born to Rhea, Zeus, was secreted off to Crete by Gaia and Rhea, as Gaia plotted her revenge on Cronus.Įventually Zeus would lead a rebellion against the Titans, and overthrow them during the Titanomachy. To circumvent this Cronus would swallow his children when they were born to his wife Rhea, and so Cronus angered both Gaia and Rhea. Gaia would make a prophecy that Cronus himself would overthrown by his own child. Gaia Angered AgainĬronus would become the new dominant god, and yet he was no more secure in his position, and so he kept the Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires imprisoned, oblivious to Gaia’s wishes.
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This imprisonment caused Gaia both physical and mental pain, but strangely, Ouranos was not fearful of the Titans, and so Gaia plotted with her 12 children.Ĭronus would take up an adamantine sickle, and whilst his brothers held Ouranos still, Cronus would castrate his father, and as the blood of the Sky god fell onto Gaia, Gaia would give birth to the Gigantes, the Erinyes and the Meliae. Ouranos, the son of Gaia, might be the supreme deity, but he was by no means secure in his position, and fearful that he might be overthrown, Ouranos would imprison the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires within Tartarus, the hell pit found deep within the bowels of Gaia. With Pontus, Gaia would also give birth to several sea deities, including Ceto, Eurybia, Nereus, Phorcys and Thaumas. Ouranos would become the first supreme deity, and would thereafter partner with Gaia, with the Earth giving birth to the three Cyclopes, the three Hecatonchires, and the 12 Titans. Gaia would also bring forth other Protogenoi, the ten Ourea, the Mountains, Pontus, the Sea, and Ouranos, the Sky. The earth at this time was shapeless, but Gaia would get to work bringing forth features and life. There were four “first born” deities, Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus and Eros.
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Gaia would come into existence at the very start of the cosmos, for she, according to Hesiod, was one of the first gods, a Protogenoi, emerging from Chaos. In Ancient Greece though she was revered, for not only was Gaia the Greek goddess of the Earth, but she was also the Mother Goddess, the ancestor of most other deities. Gaia was historically one of the most important of all Greek gods and goddesses, although her name is not one that is often thought of today.