Quote from: Tonyprep on Aug 01, 2023, 03:30 PMAll species degrade the environment
That is a very specious argument. All living things use energy to grow and they create waste in the process, but the waste product of one life form provides the energy and or building blocks for another. Worms digest human waste, worm shit feeds plants, the waste product of photosynthesis is free oxygen which serves as the electron reciver for the krebs cycle which produces ATP which provides chemical energy for animals...round and round she goes. It's a constant dissipative cycle that runs as long as the sun keeps providing the right amount of energy for the system to run, not too much or too little.
Homo Sap fit right in to this whole system quite well until we learned to control fire and began consuming copious amounts of energy faster than the sun regenerated it. First we burned whole forests, then we moved on to the fossil fuels. That was when the degradation began.
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