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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11578580

“Noting that she had read studies about mushrooms growing around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, she came to understand further, through her work, that fungi are an extraordinarily resilient species of life that consume carbon, and even though petroleum products are toxic to plants, to mushrooms they are essentially a kind of carbon.

In fact, mushrooms break down several categories of toxic waste with the same enzymes they use to consume a dead tree. They can also eat plastic and other things made out of oil, like agrochemicals.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a pretty awesome apocalypse. It would be a party full of fungis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

most tasty apocalypse