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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh really?

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Also oxygen..

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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

Giving in to the wheat propaganda, I see

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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] 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Corn is the vegetation equivalent of a cubicle dweller.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

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

Myc is the real death dinner monster. When everything dies, it'll be them that don't and then eat everyone else's of whatever's left.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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] 11 points 1 month ago

Oof! Cool perspective

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This is why I don't eat edibles lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And yet we're here for it:-)

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

It's mutually beneficial gardening.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Just the confused mark wahlberg gif from the happening

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

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

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

Or - get this - it is all a cycle.

We could call it the carbon cycle!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh yeah plants? Eat my ass!
Wipes ass with toilet paper

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