Yuval Noah Harari light heartedly raises the question in his book Sapiens, of whether men domesticated wheat or wheat domesticated humans.
Humans went from wandering through the world exploring and foraging, to doing the back breaking work to grow and farm wheat.
Wheat went from being fairly unsuccessful in evolutionary terms, to covering something like 20% of the earths surface !
RustyNova@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh really?
Then let’s accelerate climate change. I won’t let those green fuckers win
medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s right! Besides food, clothing, housing, tools, weapons, erosion control, and beauty, what have the plants ever done for us?
thenextguy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Brought peas?
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Medicine. A lot of plants are used in medicine as well. Asprin came from tree bark.
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
drugs
GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
They literally just fucking sit there, I’ve seen Jumanji I know what they could do, they just choose not to
idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah but do those fir the wring reasons. If you were a slave and your master gave u food, clothe and housing would you think “wow what a wonderful master”? Well its like that but with the plants. They are enslaving us and we csnt just let them get away with it. /s
Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
That’s too slow. Take us to defcon one.
Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’m Jewish, so unfortunately, Kanye has already taken me to death con 5. But I’m not sure if those are related.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Won’t the extra CO2 just help the heartier plants (weeds) take over?