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This seems to the basic understanding most people have. At school, they teach you about food webs and how breaking one link can ruin everything. That's an entic
by exporectomy 5y ago
This seems to the basic understanding most people have. At school, they teach you about food webs and how breaking one link can ruin everything. That's an enticing idea but is it really true? I'm sure there have been some known cases or it wouldn't be in the text books, but is it common enough to get worried about every obscure species?
- ogaitnas 5y agoPlanting seeds of doubt about established science are we? I thought HN was pro-science and environment??
- exporectomy 5y agoBig difference between science and popular emotion-fueled mischaracterizations of science.
- anonAndOn 5y agoHow about vanilla going extinct in the wild? Any real vanilla you have ever had was likely hand pollinated (and probably not from Mexico) because the bee that pollinates the vanilla orchid is thought to be extinct and the orchid that depended on it is now on its way out.[0] [0]https://phys.org/news/2013-12-professor-vanilla.html https://phys.org/news/2013-12-professor-vanilla.html