In this section, Kohak presents the reader with a new kind of philosopher or should I say inventor and geochemist. Lovelock presents his idea differently than the other philosophers because they deal with the human relations with the Earth and how we respect and treat what is around us. Lovelock doesn't focus mainly on how badly the humans are treating the earth, but the overall order of earth or in his terms, GAIA. He places humans in context with the earth and how we are acting out a role and are a part of GAIA. I actually like the way this geochemist thinks because he doesn't go on a tangent how badly the humans are treating the earth. He realizes we are human and are to be a part of the earth and shouldn't be focused on freedom and the way we act.
Lovelock also describes how human development is not based on human will and descision making, human development is rather integrated into the life of the earth and it is encoded in our being. Lovelock say that we should live in harmony with the earth and Lovelock has just done that by eating less meat and create a place for plants and animals that are being threatened by developments. If humans don't live in harmony with nature than we are causing ourselves to live in conflict and destroying the world.
Morris is presented in the section with nature and the human animal and he is a zoologist focused on our behavior related to animals and our genetic memory. We humans behave according to our genectic memory and how we are brought up in life. Wilson on the otherhand thinks that our genetic memory doesn't prepare us for a determined life and our life should be preserved and we shouldn't let animals to become extinct.
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