Bangor Daily News: During the 1970s, British scholar James Lovelock put forward the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that the Earth is a self-regulating, complex system and that human beings constitute one organ of this entity. The well-being of the planet is, thus, dependent on humankinds ability to achieve an appropriate balance between economic and social development and environmental protection. As a responsible member of the global village, Taiwan has long been committed and proactive in its efforts to tackle...