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Environment & Energy

Think. Again.

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2. This IS what we are doing on a broader scale...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon Feb 19, 2024, 08:55 AM

Feb 2024

...people don't realize the importance of each piece in the complex machinary of our planet's ecological system.

We keep reading about the individual extinctions of species without considering how dependent all other species are on the complex web of interdependency.

At some point, every sufficiently weakened system suffers total collapse.

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'Like the flip of a switch, it's gone': has the ecosystem of the UK's largest lake collapsed? [View all] muriel_volestrangler Feb 2024 OP

Pretty wild when the flies die out. If the cockroaches go, we are all toast for sure. dutch777 Feb 2024 #1

This IS what we are doing on a broader scale... Think. Again. Feb 2024 #2