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Not to mention Agent Smith is dead wrong. Want to see biggest polluter/changer in the world. Plants. It's not a virus. It's plants. Oxygen is a highly toxic c
by Ygg2 5y ago
Not to mention Agent Smith is dead wrong. Want to see biggest polluter/changer in the world. Plants. It's not a virus. It's plants.
Oxygen is a highly toxic compound, that's essentially exhaust gas for photosynthesis.
Plants changed the world way more than humans ever did. They redefined the basic chemistry of all other life on Earth. Because they slaughtered 97% of all life, by accident. What survived had to use/endure oxygen.
- staplung 5y agoPerhaps this is a quibbling point but the Great Oxidation Event happened more than 2 billion years ago, long before plants evolved. Most atmospheric oxygen was "created" by cyanobacteria. In fact, plants - along with all other multicellular organisms - were one of the beneficiaries of the GOE as they would not have been able to evolve without it.
- Ygg2 5y agoYou are right, but cyanobacteria is a plant or plant life predecessor. Either way. Cyanobacteria isn't a virus, like Agent Smith implied.
- burrows 5y agoI find this story extremely compelling. (Is it True?) > Because they slaughtered 97% of all life, by accident. And isn’t this also true of humans? We’re not killing other species (and their “habitats”) on purpose, it’s a side effect of Real Goals (eg, we want fuel to heat our homes so we can survive the winter. Or more cynically, Fuel Source Executives need to sell fuel in order to consume yachts and ski vacations).
- Ygg2 5y agoSee great oxidation event. Also destroing x% of species isn't same destroying x% of life. If there are ten species of 2 individuals and 80 individuals of another species, you can kill ~90% species while killing only 20% of all life. If you kill 90% of all life you have to kill 90 individuals.