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[–] RustyNova 49 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Oh really?

Then let's accelerate climate change. I won't let those green fuckers win

[–] medicsofanarchy 42 points 6 days ago (7 children)

That's right! Besides food, clothing, housing, tools, weapons, erosion control, and beauty, what have the plants ever done for us?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Medicine. A lot of plants are used in medicine as well. Asprin came from tree bark.

[–] medicsofanarchy 7 points 5 days ago

Okay. Food, clothing, housing, tools, weapons, erosion control, beauty, oxygen, and medicine. But other than that, what have the plants ever done for us?

[–] thenextguy 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Also oxygen..

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Won’t the extra CO2 just help the heartier plants (weeds) take over?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's too slow. Take us to defcon one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] beejboytyson 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Well, you must be a real fungi at parties.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah, but you forget, Maizen have a collective identity, so stalks think nothing of sacrificing their individual lives for the good of the whole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

if they compete for sunlight and happily smother their brethren in this fruitful pursuit, then they're no better than us at chucking each other under the bus in the name of this so called collective 'progress'

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Giving in to the wheat propaganda, I see

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (6 children)

The common, did we domesticate XYZ, or did XYZ domesticate us? Conundrum.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't fungus be more immediately interested in being among us?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Yup, bury me in a burlap sack in a deciduous forest.

Why deciduous? Because fuck pine trees, that's why. I don't want to feed those assholes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

The primordial soup developed animal life to reproduce itself. We are all basically the reproductive stage for crap.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Oof! Cool perspective

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I wanna fukken die, free my soul, the plants can have my body

[–] General_Shenanigans 6 points 6 days ago

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!

[–] esc27 6 points 6 days ago

Cue music: "It's the circle of life"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

This is why I don't eat edibles lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

We all give back in the end one way or another.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

And yet we're here for it:-)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It's mutually beneficial gardening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks so much for posting that. I hadn't heard it before and loved it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Just the confused mark wahlberg gif from the happening

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[–] Sam_Bass 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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