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Replace "Mushroom" with insects, fish, bacteria, and viruses, and many other branches of the network-of-life. Inventorying our Earth is far from done.
by xipho 2y ago
Replace "Mushroom" with insects, fish, bacteria, and viruses, and many other branches of the network-of-life. Inventorying our Earth is far from done.
- boomboomsubban 2y agoYep. For example, 25% of classified animals are beetles, and entomologists think we've classified under half of existent beetle species. Possibly as low as 1/5.
- defrost 2y agoYes and no .. for example we've barely scratched the depths of new species on the ocean floor, but we likely won't have to worry about that in a year or so when Gerard Barron starts strip mining nodules that form the base of the food chain of life we've only recently discovered. https://www.unisq.edu.au/study/why-unisq/unisq-stories/testimonials/gerard https://www.unisq.edu.au/study/why-unisq/unisq-stories/testi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metals_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metals_Company
- TechDebtDevin 2y agoRead The Séance Chapter in Thomas Pynchons, Gravity's Rainbow.. It's a great description of how the Capatalist Cartel think about the extraction of Earth's resources.
- defrost 2y agoCheers for the suggestion, I personally read the book, attended the concert [1], and learnt more about capitalist resource extraction attitudes from meeting the Vogons [2] when working on mapping [3] than I did from Pynchon's filtered Rathenau [4]. First hand beats fiction. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhzJK352NI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhzJK352NI [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Palmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Palmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family et al. [3] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/metals-mining https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Rathenau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Rathenau
- aebtebeten 2y ago> capitalist resource extraction attitudes Please, extraction is such a divisive term; we prefer to call it recovery.
- bregma 2y agoI believe the proper capitalist term is "primary resource".
- scottyah 2y agoEverybody wants cake, but nobody wants to crack an eggshell
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