[Space] What is the 'Gaia' type of garden worlds like? ('Habitability 9').

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding

On the other hand, just because I like sea bathing doesn't mean I won't to be pickled in brine. Dense jungles during monsoons aren't nearly as popular as manicured parks in mild weather. Overall, I wouldn't peg a hot humid planet with highly chaotic high energy weather systems as a "gaia" world and that's what you could get with a dense wet atmosphere with relatively high partial CO2 pressures.

That doesn't mean that we are at the optimal level (or even above it). The optimum might be lower than you describe, but higher than where we are. The fact that you can envision a higher point that's undesirable doesn't establish that every higher point is undesirable.