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by ganafagol
1757 days ago
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Maybe it's being downvoted because it is simply wrong? If tomorrow all ants disappear then most land-oriented ecosystems would just collapse. We humans are having so egoistically anthropocentrical world views that it's not even funny anymore. |
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> Humans are also exceptional in that they could extinguish themselves, either by choice on their own folly.
Could you imagine ants finding a method to annihilate themselves? I don't claim that animals are unintelligent, but we are unique in our ability to create technology to achieve almost any goal, no matter goal's 'sapience'.
> If tomorrow all ants disappear then most land-oriented ecosystems would just collapse.
I don't dispute this, but it's completely orthogonal to my claim. Humans have disrupted the biosphere in a manner that is unprecedented since when meteor strikes and seismic events were still shaping earth