OK read article and listened to the podcast with the author of the book the article was reporting on.

Mixed thoughts

• before this I was already convinced that earth itself is alive

• one scientist now of a similar belief. Good

• but, shows how embarrassingly slow (or how controlled) $cience that now this topic is being considered again "seriously"

• the science editor of the podcast, the one doing the interview sounds like a complete dumbass. And he's their "science editor"

• the author of the book that makes the argument the earth is living... This guy towards the end of the interview goes hard in shilling for government and hijacks the discussion to whip up people into acting on the "climate crisis". Also one conclusion from him is still repeating that collective shaming tactic of: " we contributed to part of this climate crisis so we should change our behaviour to save the planet"

• overall started off a little promising but ended as another propaganda piece

The earth is an atom

1 Protons and electrons swirl around the nucleus of an atom

2 Atoms swirl around in human bodies

3 Men and women swirl around our planet

4 Planets swirl around our sun

5 Solar systems swirl around in our galaxies

As above, so below

The obvious answer is Yes.

It is

a) Dying (motion) was before living (matter) comes to be....others suggest what "is" to distract from that.

b) Self implies perpetuation of ones life through another one. Only living can self perpetuate...not the process of dying.

c) Suggested creationism (out of nothing) tempts one to ignore perceivable transmutation (being within everything)....consenting to suggested contradicts self discernment within perceivable.

d) GI'ANT, noun (Latin gigas) - "earth-born" aka terrigena aka generated (inception towards death) earth (life) aka motion generating matter internally/inherently.

e) Earth/heart implies pulsation within motion aka center of surrounding aka core/cordis. It also implies hearth (burning place; fire place) from ker (heat; fire).

Cold (inception towards death) generates heat (life)...a burned offering; a sacrificial furnace.

f) Motion generates matter (living) within momentum (dying)...only matter can experience momentum.