But if he wins power, his record is so contradictory it is not clear if he would rule to serve the narrow interests of his clique, or the pressing needs of the country.
Gaia challenges the scientific establishment-whose experts jealously rulenarrow specialties-to see a bigger picture: the world as one system in which sea and sky and life transform one another.
"It's a possibility," he says. "But I don't know anyone who has tested it and I can think of many exceptions to any rule you come up with about what narrow interests or other traits each gender has."