Gaianist

English

Etymology

From Gaian +‎ -ist.

Noun

Gaianist (plural Gaianists)

1. An adherent of Gaianism.
   • 1992, A. M. Mannion, S. R. Bowlby, editors, Environmental Issues in the 1990s, Wiley, →ISBN, page 166:

     Gaianists derive their ideas from the recent theory of James Lovelock, who argues that the biosphere operates as if it were a single living entity which he calls Gaia, after the Greek Goddess of the earth (Chapter 1).

   • 1993, David Pepper, Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice, Routledge, published 2003, →ISBN:

     Lovelock’s hypothesis does not attribute intelligence to Gaia. But many Gaianists do: particularly deep ecologists and New Agers.

   • 2000, Martin Phillips, Tim Mighall, Society and Exploitation Through Nature, London, New York, N.Y.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 30:

     Rather than talk of increasing control of nature, deep ecologists and Gaianists, for example, warn of the ‘revenge of nature’, a notion that has also started to appear in some recent environmental histories such as that of Murphy (1994).

Synonyms

• Gaian