Reply #18: That's heading toward Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis

[GliderGuider]

The world is a dynamic, self-regulating system that has both visible and obscure mechanisms to maintain or restore homeostasis.

I agree in principle, but in the presence of so many positive feedbacks it is hard to tell what sort of mechanisms will be triggered to help define the new equilibrium. The further out of stasis we get the more severe the limiting mechanisms will inevitably be.