The health of humanity through the eyes of Gaia

In recent decades, the world has been scratching, sneezing, and coughing. Allergies are on the rise everywhere, at all latitudes, and in all age groups. According to projections by the World Health Organization, by 2050 more than 50% of the world's population will suffer from at least one allergy. It is not just a question of pollen and dust: it is human physiology that seems to be rebelling against the environment.

Or perhaps the opposite.

The most credible hypotheses? Air pollution, climate change, excessive hygiene (the so-called hygiene hypothesis), depleted microbiome, microplastics, ultra-processed food. All true. All partial. All symptoms, rather than causes.

But let's try to look at the problem from another angle. As if we were looking through Gaia's eyes.

According to Lovelock and Margulis' Gaia hypothesis, the Earth behaves like a super-organism capable of self-regulation to maintain conditions favorable to life. But if the dominant species—humans—become a dysfunctional, destabilizing element, then the organism reacts. Not as a punitive deity would, but as a body reacts when tissue grows uncontrollably: it isolates it, inflames it, fights it.

Allergies, pandemics, chronic inflammation, collective burnout, increasing infertility: what if these weren't just “problems” to be solved with more science, more pills, more technology, but messages from a system trying to rebalance itself?

One of the most disturbing manifestations of this rebalancing is the exponential growth of antibiotic resistance. The estimates are clear: by 2050, antibiotic-resistant infections could cause more deaths than cancer. This is not just a health crisis, it is an evolutionary reckoning. After decades of antibiotic abuse—in hospitals, on farms, and in consumer products—microbes are surpassing us in adaptive intelligence.

In other words, the Earth is rendering our weapons ineffective.

And this is where a glimmer of hope emerges. An unconventional countermeasure: ozone.

Ozone is a molecule composed of three oxygen atoms. It is highly unstable, yet incredibly effective as a natural antimicrobial agent. Under controlled conditions, it can inactivate viruses, bacteria, and fungi, even those resistant to antibiotics. It has been used successfully in some integrated medicine protocols, in water purification, and even in the sanitization of hospitals and production environments.

But there is a “problem”: ozone is not a pill. It is not addictive. It has no side effects. It does not have a restricted and hyper-specific use. And so it remains on the margins of official medical discourse. Unheard. Or worse, derided.

Despite the fact that sources suggesting its effectiveness in the medical field and beyond are multiplying. (Salvatore Chirumbolo et al. 2024, Banerjee et al. 2024, Risultati sperimentazione progetto OXIR)

Together with regenerative agriculture practices, extensive farming, and the use of clean energy sources, ozone can effectively represent one of the keys to an impactful response to contemporary challenges related to climate and public health.

At this point, the question broadens: it is not just a matter of healing our bodies, but of healing our relationship with the Earth itself. So let's return to the bigger picture...

Earth Overshoot Day and the death of intergenerational spirituality

In 2024, Earth Overshoot Day—the day when we consumed all the renewable resources available in a year—fell at the end of July. Every year it comes earlier. Every year, a new negative record. It's like living in oxygen debt, but pretending that breathing harder is enough.

On closer inspection, this misalignment is not only ecological, but spiritual. We have buried the gods, but we have found nothing better to put in their place. It is not the death of organized religion that is the problem, it is the collective amnesia towards those principles that held together the past, present, and future. The sacredness of the Earth, the responsibility towards those who will come after us, the sense of limits.

Without spirituality, there is no future. Only a bulimic present and a planet trying to detoxify itself from humanity as if it were an infestation.

If Gaia is an intelligent and complex system, the unlimited growth of one part is not an option, especially if this growth is not sustainable. Thus, selection increases: autoimmune diseases, stress, infertility, drug-resistant infections. Technology chases after it, proposing remedies.

But it's a lame race. Because every time we win a battle, we start three more.

The real question is not how to win against the planet. It's how to live with the planet.

What if it were extraterrestrials?

Now, let us consider a provocative idea. What if it is not only Earth that governs these balances? What if there are forces—extraterrestrial, cryptoterrestrial, or interdimensional—acting on scales that we are not yet able to measure?

Gaia itself could be more than a theoretical concept. It could be a fully-fledged organism. Just not in the standard monistic conception that contemporary Western biology has instilled in us.

Although almost the entire scientific world turns a blind eye, clues suggesting the existence of Non-Human Intelligences are increasingly coming to the surface, after having been kept secret, studied, and analyzed by intelligence agencies for decades.

Is there someone or something that governs the parameters of climate, collective emotions, and large demographic shifts more than the factors identified by academics? We don't know. Even science doesn't know, but it has learned to mask its ignorance with complex models. These models are correct and extremely detailed in form, but often redundant, empty, and flawed in their premises.

Whether it is Gaia defending herself, or whether we are immersed in a cosmic game bigger than ourselves, one fact remains: the current model of knowledge development and progress needs to be adjusted. In addition to short-term actions, a paradigm shift is needed. A model that is not “anthropocentrism with a sprinkling of green,” but humanism in synergy with the environment, other species, and the very meaning of humanity, through a science less influenced by money and convention, and more open to alternative visions, interdisciplinary approaches, and combinations with spirituality, intuition, and the nature of consciousness.

If we are truly immersed in a greater intelligence, the question is not only “what can we do?”, but “who do we need to become in order to listen?”

Fabio Caratto