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[โ€“] indepndnt@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was just talking to my wife today about how trees lived long before the bacteria that could decompose wood, how generations of trees lived and died and just stayed there. That the reason we have coal is because of all of these trees that died ages ago and couldn't decompose. Not only are trees the lungs of the earth, but the only reason we ever got an atmosphere that we could exist in is because of the innumerable trees that captured carbon from the air and contributed oxygen back to it. Trees are fucking amazing and we owe them everything.

[โ€“] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

20% of oxygen is from bacteria and around 50% comes from plankton, the last 30% is mostly trees.

The oceans are the lungs of the Earth and climate change threatens to cause plankton to decrease in numbers or switch from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters.

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