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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Sadly I've still never seen any real papers on this being an actual theory.

I still want to believe I'm Ent livestock though.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It’s because it doesn’t really make sense, plants came before animals. Plants do not need us to survive, but we need plants to survive.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plants need us animals to turn that oxygen they produce back into carbon dioxide for them.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope, fungi and other decomposers do that.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm decomposing with the best of them, my friend.

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

You're more of a decomposee than a decomposer.

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