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Also trees are just farming us to create the CO2 that they crave. It's dangerous to look at the world with a human-first lens.


Also dogs at some point decided they'd stop looking for food themselves and instead focus on taking advantage of how insanely industrious humans are


And wheat domesticated us, not the other way around.


Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan is a great book / documentary that explores this view.


And cows, so they could greatly increase their numbers and outcompete other herbivores.




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