Oh really?
Then let's accelerate climate change. I won't let those green fuckers win
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Oh really?
Then let's accelerate climate change. I won't let those green fuckers win
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..
Won’t the extra CO2 just help the heartier plants (weeds) take over?
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.
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.
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.
Well, you must be a real fungi at parties.
Ah, but you forget, Maizen have a collective identity, so stalks think nothing of sacrificing their individual lives for the good of the whole.
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'
The common, did we domesticate XYZ, or did XYZ domesticate us? Conundrum.
Wouldn't fungus be more immediately interested in being among us?
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.
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
The primordial soup developed animal life to reproduce itself. We are all basically the reproductive stage for crap.
Oof! Cool perspective
Symbiosis
I wanna fukken die, free my soul, the plants can have my body
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"
This is why I don't eat edibles lol.
We all give back in the end one way or another.
And yet we're here for it:-)
It's mutually beneficial gardening.
Reminds me of this modern classic: https://youtu.be/Cf2Q-McO_Fw
Thanks so much for posting that. I hadn't heard it before and loved it
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Just the confused mark wahlberg gif from the happening