Helen CzerskiThe problem with a lot of ocean "exploitation" is that it's like mining a human for calcium. Yes, a human body contains ~1kg of calcium, and you could take it out, but it's already *doing* quite a lot of useful things, and the human has far more potential to help you if you leave the calcium alone.
Jane Doe@helenczerski That’s true of most extraction from ecosystems, I think. Lack of understanding of the function of ecosystems, and the benefits of those functions to humans, is a common phenomenon. Might also be true of non-ecological systems.
Alexander The 1st@janef0421 @helenczerski Part of it, I think, is because we can see a microcosm of the entire ecosystem and think that we understand it.
And then we discover stuff like this way later:
[ https://youtu.be/rtAIPn3V23U?si=8G_0sf1H8aZzkQV4 ].
And we tend to go "Huh; that was doing something?", and then lather, rinse, repeat, we'll probably do it again.
