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[–] Daryl76679@lemmy.ml 84 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Which is honestly a disservice to trees because they do so many other things like cool the landscape, hold soil, and provide habitat

[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

also planet is like 70% water. how many % of landmass has trees.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There's roughly 3 200 000 000 000 trees in the world (about 400 per living human).

Are they even trying?

[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

How many plankton is there per human? Probably atleast 401. Checkmate tree haters.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Barely, and then they have the audacity to get burned in wild fires.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would be interesting if all the water currently held up in organisms would follow back into the climate

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

And make all the guitars and BEHSes and all the other wonderful instruments.

[–] moodoovoodoo@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's more like 50-60% and it depends on who's doing the breathing - the vast majority of O2 generated by phytoplankton doesn't become atmospheric O2 - it stays in the ocean. So yeah, us terrestrials would see terrestrial 02 producers as our glam rock stars.

[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't the ocean drain oxygen produced by trees if phytoplankton didn't exist? It seems to me that both move oxygen into the same system, earth.

[–] moodoovoodoo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

If phytoplankton didn't exist, the things removing pure 02 from the ocean through respiration would die. In which case, the ocean would reach O2 solubility equilibrium at a fraction of a percent of atmospheric O2 and would stop uptaking it because there's nothing left to continue converting it to CO2.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

Trees don't actually produce that much excess oxygen at all. If I remember correctly, only about ~1/1000 molecules of O2 generated by a given tree actually ever leave its local environment. The rest gets used up by the tree itself and surrounding wildlife

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

Shallow underwater breath, since phytoplankton require sunlight. Less sunlight can penetrate into deeper water

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is Elton John hosting Carpool Karaoke now?

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is from Elton's biopic, played by Taron Egerton

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tbf Taron makes an excellent Elton.

I gotta wonder if his role as Johnny (the gorilla) in Sing is what led to him as Elton in Rocket Man.

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

He's absolutely fabulous.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure he's a theater kid

[–] speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely a fun movie

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Algae Bloom

[–] bratorange@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Man I just discovered planktons villain backstory.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sooo.... plant plankton instaead of trees?

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Correct, but phytoplankton also is dying because global and ocean warming.