Hutchinson is (…) not only “the missing link between Vernadsky´s work and ecology” but also the common denominator to Vernadsky’s biospheral conceptions, systems ecology, and today’s “global change” ecology:
“Apart from a slight rise in agricultural productivity caused by an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it is difficult to see how the various contaminants with which we are polluting the atmosphere could form the basis for a revolutionary step forward. Nonetheless, it is worth noting that when the eucaryotic cell evolved in the middle Precambrian period, the process very likely involved an unprecedented new kind of evolutionary development. Presumably, if we want to continue living in the biosphere we must also introduce unprecedented processes” [G.E. Hutchinson, “THe Biosphere” Scientific American 223 (1970) 45-54, at p. 53]
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El Hutchinson se las pillaba como que todas :)
Cita tomada de:
Pascal Acot, Ecosystems en: The Cambridge History of Science Vol. 6: The modern Biological and Earth Sciences. 2009.
