(Conversation recorded on June 14th, 2024)
If plants are considered the lungs of the Earth, cycling CO2 into oxygen for animals to breathe, then animals act as the heart and arteries, spreading nutrients across the Earth to where it’s needed most.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://thegreatsimplification.libsyn.com/eat-poop-die-animals-as-the-arteries-of-the-biosphere-with-joe-roman