Oh really?
Then let's accelerate climate change. I won't let those green fuckers win
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That's right! Besides food, clothing, housing, tools, weapons, erosion control, and beauty, what have the plants ever done for us?
Medicine. A lot of plants are used in medicine as well. Asprin came from tree bark.
Okay. Food, clothing, housing, tools, weapons, erosion control, beauty, oxygen, and medicine. But other than that, what have the plants ever done for us?
Also oxygen..
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That's too slow. Take us to defcon one.
I'm Jewish, so unfortunately, Kanye has already taken me to death con 5. But I'm not sure if those are related.
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Won’t the extra CO2 just help the heartier plants (weeds) take over?
Another Sapiens reader. Look, I don't care how uppity those maize are -- there's no way they trained us into cultivating them, we slaughtered their brothers and sisters and kept only the tamer, weaker, fatter renditions that we could use for our own means. If that benefits them, then they're psychopaths.
Corn is not sentient, and I will die on this hill!
I feel like I heard this perspective elsewhere...it may have been The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. Which I really enjoyed, myself.
But everyone knows that the kingdom that's really in charge is the fungi.
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The common, did we domesticate XYZ, or did XYZ domesticate us? Conundrum.
Cats
Yep. We feed cats, they kill pests which would otherwise give us disease and spoil our foods.
Makes you think that domestication is maybe the wrong paradigm, neither or us domesticated each other (or we both did) but truly it’s a mutually beneficial partnership, something that is actually common in nature.
I love cats. They choose every day to continue being our friends. They didn't need to be genetically mutilated to love us unconditionally like dogs. Cats are free creatures.
And we feed then every day so they don't kill and eat us.
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Oof! Cool perspective
Wouldn't fungus be more immediately interested in being among us?
Jokes on them, we’re going to put carbon into the atmosphere faster than they can process it raising the global temperature to the point of extinction
This is my tune, not only biocentric, but also a very healthy dose of anti-anthropocentric. A species traitor, if you allow me to be as bold.
I really don't think that talk about humans being the god on earth, center of the universe, with a metaphysical excuse to exploit everything around us is doing wonders to our health nor long term survival... And obviously the "sapiens" of our epithet is only there because we gave it ourselves chef's kiss
It's also a very Buddhist outlook. Not because of anything specifically antihuman or pro ecology but simply because we as humans are part of a cycle that lives and dies. We don't have a say.
You could say our karma is that we will be too proud and be too exceptionalist and end it all earlier than expected because we couldn't come together and take care of the earth.
It sucks but the earth will go on for a few more billion years without us.
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Symbiosis
This is why I don't eat edibles lol.
Why?
Because it amuses me. Next time I'll make sure you are okay with me having fun before posting anything.
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Eukaryotes likely evolved during The Great Oxidation Event which saw oxygen levels rise to levels that were toxic to the Cyanobacteria (which use photosynthesis). We evolved to save them!
Cue music: "It's the circle of life"
And yet we're here for it:-)
We all give back in the end one way or another.
The primordial soup developed animal life to reproduce itself. We are all basically the reproductive stage for crap.
Or - get this - it is all a cycle.
We could call it the carbon cycle!
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It's mutually beneficial gardening.
This is some Trump level zero sum understanding of mutual benefit.
OP is probably going to be appointed Secretary of the Interior to shoot all the DEI trees and end woke oxygen.
Lmao perhaps, make breathing great again (note: I do not support trump, this is just a joke)
Fwiw, you are on Lemmy now: (virtually) nobody thinks that you support Trump:-D
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Oh yeah plants? Eat my ass!
Wipes ass with toilet paper
The image won't render :(
Just the confused mark wahlberg gif from the happening
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