(St. Martin’s Press, 1990) explored the Gaia Hypothesis that the Earth adjusts and regulates itself more like a living organism than a geological machine, as traditional Earth science holds, with ramifications for fields ranging from biogeochemistry to goddess worship.
The book began as an article for The New York Times Magazine (11/86), and led to Joseph being invited to present his findings at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
