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toxicodendron radicans

Polite reminder: Earth is a tree planet with some bacteria. Everything else is just the extra stuff that lives here too.

Diagram showing Earth life in terms of relative biomass (basically, how much all life on Earth weighs). Plants make up 450 billion tons, most of which is from trees. Bacteria are 70 billion tons. Fungi are 12 billion tons. All animals make up only 2 billion tons. All humans are just 60 million tons. We thank our leafy overlords.
Alexandra Soroca 🎹

@InvaderXan Can we say that humans are just parasites, who are slowly killing the host?

toxicodendron radicans

@SeventhMagpie Certain types of human do seem to fit that description. But I think it's more that humans are a component of the system which is out of balance.

Any little ecosystem, from a fishtank to a sourdough culture, can get out of balance sometimes. It might mess stuff up for a while and do some damage. Eventually though, the system needs to find a balance, and usually does.

Humans just need to realise that they're part of such a system and learn to balance themselves within it.

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