• Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I think to dismiss such basic knowledge as a mere personal interest misses the point. If people don’t even know about such things that chips are made from potatoes, that is a warning sign – it’s a matter of lacking general education and too many people not caring about their own actual ecosystem and dependencies.

    A political cartoon by Stefan Haller: it illustrates human dependence on biodiversity using a house of cards. A person on top of the structure asks, "Why should I care about the extinction of species?", while each card below represents a different plant or animal. The precarious stack symbolizes how the removal of even one species could lead to the collapse of the entire ecosystem, impacting humanity.