Plants As Persons
To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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Plants Are Our Relatives
We are hard wired to know plants. We have this taxinomic part of our brain which is so good at discerning one thing from the next. So when you say plants are our relatives, you're actually saying, genetically, i'd have to look up and remember what the fraction of our dna that we share. Me in that maple tree right there, it's over 80 %. The chlorophyle molecule that powers everything in the trees is so similar to your hemoglobin. As i'm talking to you, the carbon dioxide that is coming out of my mouth is seconds later being made into sugar by our maple companion. Seconds seconds the air that we are breathing right now is
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