Treat Mother Earth as a human being

There needs to be an international protocol for testing innovations

Fantastic and successful innovations carry unintended consequences, which can convert those innovations into a ‘curse’ — think of fertilisers, insecticides, automobile and atom. Within the next 30 years, there will be a clamour to ban or control televisions, cell phones and computers, which generate enormous electronic waste. I recall a wunderkind of my childhood, plastic.

In Greek mythology, Gaia is the Earth and one of the primordial deities. In Hindu mythology, Bhoomi is the Sanskrit name for the Earth, Bhoodevi being the consort of Lord Vishnu. Since our ancestors did conceive of the Earth as a goddess, it is not stupid