One thing leads to another

Kudos and thanks to Jana Mathia’s editorial last week! She did an excellent job of encapsulating a complex problem and making it understandable. We live in a system of systems, all interacting to maintain life on Earth. If one system gets out of balance, it affects many others. Global warming drives changing climates, which affect things, living or non-living, as the climate changes.

In 1979, James Lovelock published “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth.” He postulated that “the only feasible explanation of the Earth’s highly improbable atmosphere was that it was being manipulated on a day-to-da...