THE IMPACT OF GAIA-EARTH TO LIFE AND HEALTH OF MANKIND
Abstract. The article actualizes the ecological problem of the future of the Earth and mankind. James Lovelock's theory of the relationship between living and non-living and his hypothesis that the planet is a living, breathing and self-regulating being are described. This hypothesis is expressed by the author by analogy with the Greek myth describing the goddess of the earth gay.
Keywords: life on Earth, human health, Earth-self - regulating system.
Pankova Valentina – candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of General and applied psychology at the Institute of Friendship of the Peoples of the Caucasus, Stavropol.
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