- cross-posted to:
- mycology@mander.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- mycology@mander.xyz
LennethAegis ( @LennethAegis@kbin.social ) 45•8 months agoArticle says it only moved to living trees and that its a symbiotic relationship. Which to my understanding of trees, they already do this with other fungi, and this one is just tagging along as well.
The last of us this is not, not even close.
Scrof ( @Scrof@sopuli.xyz ) 21•8 months agoNature please that is unnecessary.
mycatiskai ( @mycatiskai@lemmy.one ) 15•8 months agoAre you sure?
We are never going to live peacefully with nature in a balance. Maybe nature needs to take us over and balance us out by itself.
protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English12•8 months agoWait til you find out we are nature
mycatiskai ( @mycatiskai@lemmy.one ) 3•8 months agoWe are nature making non nature things with industry. It took the industrial revolution to push us to where we are with climate change and pollution.
Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•8 months agobut how is human industry unnatural when termite mounds, anthills, beehives, and beaver dams are natural?
mycatiskai ( @mycatiskai@lemmy.one ) 2•8 months agoWell, a beaver dam helps the natural environment by creating water habitats for other creatures. Humans create chemicals that don’t break down forever, plastics that break down over centuries that include microplastics that are now in our bloodstreams and in in whales stomachs. Does any of that human stuff sound like it is natural?
Shdwdrgn ( @Shdwdrgn@beehaw.org ) 4•8 months agoBeaver dams are only helpful because other organisms have learned to make use of that niche. There are already bacteria which have learned how to consume plastics, and others which have been shown to break down oil spills. Nature can fix anything we throw at it, given enough time. Humans may go extinct because we can’t adapt fast enough to the changing conditions, but something else will always come along eventually that can make use of the waste we create.
Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•8 months agorats and many birds are prime examples of species that have already adapted to human cities, and would you look at that they’re EXTREMELY successful and have colonized the entire earth along with us.
Granixo ( @Granixo@feddit.cl ) 4•8 months agoCan we get Fungi Goth BBW milky mommy now?
tetraodon ( @tetraodon@feddit.it ) 2•8 months agoWholly necessary. This is a case of symbiosis between trees and fungi. Fungi get sugars, trees get nitrogen - and possibly a social network.
The article seems to suggest that the writer has never heard of some species of cordyceps.
Lexam ( @Lexam@lemmy.ca ) English2•8 months agoYay?