What Happened Today? Kay and I left the hotel in Naples around 8:15 AM. On the way to Key West we stopped at Sandal City. We had lunch in Islamorada. Later in the afternoon we arrived at the Fairfield Inn in Key West. Very hot!! We walked to Half Raw Bar. We played shuffleboard. We had a hamburger at an Irish bar called Finnegan’s.
GAIA- Planetary Management:
56. In between, the green world flowers, richest around the tropical zones where the ice age glaciations have never reached.
57. Here, in the tropical forests and the shallow sunlit seas and reefs, much of Earth’s living wealth of species is concentrated.
58. The Earth’s green cover is a prerequisite for the rest of life.
59. Plants alone, through the alchemy of photosynthesis, can use sunlight energy, and convert it to the chemical energy animals need for survival.
60. It was the emergence of photosynthesizing algae in the oceans which first released free oxygen into the atmosphere– a cataclysmic event for existing life forms, but a pre-condition for present-day existence.