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Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But swamps are cool, but you’re also very right they’re gross and I would much rather observe from afar or from a picture

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  • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While swamps are “gross” they are actually the cleanest things in nature on the other hand.

    Wetlands are massive water quality processors, they are the opposite of dirty or gross, though I completely understand that feeling that stomping through thick mud is gross.

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    • Waterdoc@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Clean is relative, there are lots of contaminants in wetland water that make it unsafe. They are incredibly important and very useful for naturally cleaning water, but please don’t drink the swamp water.

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      • teft@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        please don’t drink the swamp water.

        You’re not the boss of me.

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      • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Who put those contaminants there though?

        Swamp creatures didn’t, the swamp didn’t, we did.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Handle checks out. Lol swamps definitely cleaner than your average dumpster!

      I think the unsettling thing is that the whole biome is crawling or buzzing. Feeling like inhaling will choke you on a gnat cloud, every surface has some grouchy venomous thing that’ll stick ya, and that “log” over there is just waiting for something to death-roll today, as it floats across murky water you can’t see under.

      Fascinating places! But I can see why they’re not exactly attractive for humans.

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      • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True I don’t mean to insinuate there aren’t dangerous creatures in swamps, they are the cities of nature, you find everything there.

        Like real cities though, there is a safety in the crowd, in the wild variety of different forms and tendencies. It means that no particular process or force is likely to swing wildly out of control, no animal is going to overrun the swamp. If the swamp becomes full of some icky animal, let’s say cockroaches, then the swamp will soon become full of bullfrogs and other predators. Things are smoothed out in a very complex way that makes swamps a much “safer” environment than you might expect because the constant ecological conversation between everything in the swamp keeps things in check.

        What happens when that system breaks down is like what you see with ticks in the eastern US. The general hardwood landscapes of the east have had their ecological engine thrown so far out of whack that tick populations are skyrocketing along with tick borne diseases. The forests are not functioning like a swamp where when one element goes way out of whack it is mediated by another.

        It is no coincidence that freshwater wetlands have been erased wholesale from the landscape of America, filled in, polluted beyond function or destroyed.

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    • FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That actually interesting tho

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sounds kinda like saying “dishwater is clean”. It’s used in cleaning, but I wouldn’t call it clean

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• Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Volcanoes are cool too but I’m not gonna take a dip in one

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• malean@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shrek lived in a swamp and I trust his taste

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t argue with that 🤷

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