As phytoplankton and forests are the main ways in which Gaia draws down greenhouse gases , particularly carbon dioxide , taking it out of the atmosphere , the elimination of this environmental buffering will see , according to Lovelock , most of the earth becoming uninhabitable for humans and other life-forms by the middle of this century , with a massive extension of tropical deserts .
As phytoplankton and forests are the main ways in which Gaia draws down carbon dioxide , taking it out of the atmosphere , the elimination of this environmental buffering will see , according to Lovelock , most of the earth becoming uninhabitable for humans and other life-forms by the middle of this century , with a massive extension of tropical deserts .