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Re:America Lost the Chestnut, Its One Perfect Tree by upvote_test_act on Thursday December 28, 2023 @11:28AM (#38795133)
> Prosperity of humanity as a goal is at odds with biodiversity.

I roundly refute this frankly riduculous assertion. It shows a grave lack of understanding of the actual mechanisms that maintain the natural world in a state fit for human habitation.

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Re:America Lost the Chestnut, Its One Perfect Tree by upvote_test_act on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:51PM (#38808743)
For more details, see:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=biodiversity+and+human+...

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Re:America Lost the Chestnut, Its One Perfect Tree by alexey-salmin on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @09:01AM (#38841637)
Humans have been crushing biodiversity for more than two thousands years now and yet the homo sapiens is thriving by all objective measures like population count, habitat width and dispensable energy per capita.

You may argue that at some point we have to stop and I agree. However this doesn't contradict the fact that up until now reducing biodiversity (e.g. by replacing forests with monoculture field crops) worked out extremely well.

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