The way that humans predate sets us apart from all other animals. We are technologically advanced and often target the largest of the species. This makes us unsustainable super-predators.

Read the paper: The Unique Ecology of Human Predators

Somewhere between one and two degrees above the pre-industrial baseline lies a cascade of tipping points that will take us to global average temperatures on par with the Permian Extinction.

Read the paper:  Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

Since around 2020 the total mass of stuff made by humans has outweighed the mass of living things on Earth.

Read the paper: Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass.

The Gaia hypothesis suggest that all the living things in the biosphere has the characteristics of a single, super-organism. Vita Sapien refers to this super-organism as Vitae-planeta.

Read the paper:  Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biosphere: the gaia hypothesis

by Roberto Cazzolla Gatti

A Gaian planet can be considered the same as  a coevolutionary system analogous to a multicellular body: a super-unit  of selection. I describe different situations according to which “Gaia”  is able to re- produce and to transfer her planetary genome to other  uninhabited or inhabited planets. 

Is Gaia alive?