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Both are connected. Are functioning as one. Are esential. Are a metafor and a explanation how our own human body is functioning
Claudia Sunshine We Are The Ark Facebook 2 december 2020;
Hopefully Mary and the admins won't mind me sharing this, please remove if you'd rather I didn't post it here for whatever reason. I just thought some arkivists might be interested in also following the Myceliate page x
Remembrance Day for Lost Species: Yesterday, November 30th, was a day to honour the countless forms of life that have perished in the last few centuries. The recent State of the World’s Plants and Fungi report published by RBG, Kew, estimates that plant extinctions are currently occurring at 500 times pre-Anthropocene levels. Each one of us today lives in a world that is so much poorer and depleted compared to even the 1970’s.
Let’s take the time to consider what nature actually is. Nature is a collective of species, of living individuals. Even when we talk about habitats, we’re really just talking about other species that serve as homes for yet more species. Living things live inside of living things, they eat other living things, and they travel through living things.
Removing a single element of this interwoven system isn’t an arithmetic or linear affair - we can’t look at the pure numbers of because each loss triggers cascading effects that result in the collapse of entire guilds of species and ecosystems. To begin even halting the ongoing damage requires widespread understanding of ecology, which functions according to completely different logic than that of modern-day economics that societies exist under. These are the themes we’ll be exploring in the coming months here at Myceliate, so be sure to share this page with anyone interested in mycology and living in a wilder world.
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