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All of our antibiotics depend on biodiversity. So does many of our medicines, all of our fruit. We still can't synthesize blood from the horseshoe crab so we ne
by KittenInABox 5y ago
All of our antibiotics depend on biodiversity. So does many of our medicines, all of our fruit. We still can't synthesize blood from the horseshoe crab so we need that. Biodiversity is how we ensure a robust civilization with multiple specialist humans in varieties of lifestyles and interests.
A world without biodiversity is inflexible, therefore fragile. We already recreated it in minimally-diverse production systems, which have all been majorly screwed over as soon as covid required adaptation.