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A good example of the situation is cellulose. Various animals can eat it. Yet trees continue to flourish for hundreds of millions of years since biological mach
by _0w8t 4y ago
A good example of the situation is cellulose. Various animals can eat it. Yet trees continue to flourish for hundreds of millions of years since biological machinery to digest cellulose is very energetically expensive and slow.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThat's a really bad example as plastics don't have defense mechanisms other than how hard they are to digest compared to other materials in the environment. Trees are alive and have multiple defenses.