I mean the inputs to make meat (water, feed) and outputs (methane, misery) are massive. I used this as an example of ways nature fixes a problem, like walnuts producing every other year to reduce an explosion of baby squirrels year over year.
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You're attributing agency to Mother Earth. All the layered & interconnected ecosystems of our planet are way too complex to identify a causal link between environmental cost of livestock & spread of these ticks. Sure, climate change involved in both, but past that, the science isn't there.
aug 5, 2025, 10:34 pm • 2 0 • view
It's a bit of whimsy to be sure. Random mutation that benefits a planet where it just passed it's carrying capacity can be seen as a benefit to that system, and anthropomorphizing Mother Earth is far from uncommon.
aug 5, 2025, 10:42 pm • 3 0 • view
It's an amusing thought, I suppose. I'm a pagan, so I worship Mother Earth as a goddess. But I keep my spirituality completely separate from my scientific acumen.
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