The Gaia hypothesis essentially places an emphasis on the ecosystem as a whole, affirming that the earth as the habitat of all beings has supreme value in an ecology-based morality. James Lovelock proposed that the earth was an enormous, complex, self-sustaining organism, which he named Gaia (The ancient Greek name of the goddess Earth). Just as individual living organisms are able to maintain a steady-state in a variety of conditions, just as they tend toward homeostasis rather than radically altering their condition in every set of changed circumstances, so the earth maintains stability…